Hammonds, Julia Terry
unknown · Contribution: 1896
Household & Domestic Inventions
Apparatus for holding yarn-skeins — a simple, inexpensive device for holding and winding yarn, silk, and other fibers
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Quick facts
- Active since
- 1896
- Category
- Household & Domestic Inventions
Impact on the world
Hammonds devised a practical home tool that simplified winding yarn and thread, a small but real convenience for needleworkers.
Sources
- USPTO / Google Patents (US 572,985), primary source. [Note: Hammonds is genuinely obscure, with no independent institutional biography located, retained honestly as a single strong primary-source entry.]
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