Alternate Uses For Wire Coat Hangers

'Wood or wire? They have both', and in 1967 with the now famous line spoken by a young Dustin Hoffman in the role of 'Benjamin' in the film, 'The Graduate', humble clothes hangers were immortalized. Wood, wire, plastic or fabric-covered, there is a design for every need in the battle for tidiness. He never saw a penny of the fortune that was made from the patent of the first wire coat hanger in 1903, but Albert J Parkhouse is credited with its invention. By 1906, nearly 200 patents had been granted for novel devices with the simple aim of keeping garments off floors. Two hundred years after its creation, many other uses for this versatile family essential have been described. Some can be accomplished without changing the hanger, others require it to be unwound to one degree of another and still others demand that it be cut or stretched out to the desired shape.

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