Goodspeed Costume Rentals - Friday Fun Fact! - Just who invented the coat hanger? Well technically, today's wire coat hanger was inspired by a clothes hook patented in 1869, by O. A.
Ella Sharp Museum - Did you know the clothing hanger was invented in Jackson, MI? In 1903 Albert Parkhouse, foreman of the Timberlake Wire and Novelty Company came back from lunch to
![21 February 2019, Bavaria, Nürnberg: A coat hanger with the inscription "bitte lass mich hängen" (please let me hang) can be found in the Museum of Industrial Culture in the special exhibition " 21 February 2019, Bavaria, Nürnberg: A coat hanger with the inscription "bitte lass mich hängen" (please let me hang) can be found in the Museum of Industrial Culture in the special exhibition "](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/RPAE6D/21-february-2019-bavaria-nrnberg-a-coat-hanger-with-the-inscription-bitte-lass-mich-hngen-please-let-me-hang-can-be-found-in-the-museum-of-industrial-culture-in-the-special-exhibition-aufhngngt-und-abgehakt-hung-and-unhooked-in-a-showcase-from-21-february-to-28-april-2019-the-exhibition-explains-the-history-of-the-hanger-the-question-of-who-invented-it-when-in-what-forms-and-materials-it-was-developed-and-why-photo-daniel-karmanndpa-RPAE6D.jpg)