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History of Desk

Posted on: 2022-02-06, Author: Not Sure,
In: History of Office Furniture,

For several hundred years the term “desk” implied something portable, even when fitted with small drawers and made large enough to store several books and various writing tools.Not Sure

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History of Modern Office Chair

Posted on: 2022-02-06, Author: Not Sure,
In: History of Office Furniture,

By tracking how the office chair evolved with the changing nature of work, we can better understand how we ended up sitting on kinetic sculptures of mesh and metal today, and where the office chair might go next.

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Invention of the Chairmat

Posted on: 2022-02-06, Author: Umrsesm'rss Parar freies; l miraron BLUMENTHAL, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK,
In: History of Office Furniture,

Tf1-all whom it' may concern.' 'B'e it known thatI, MAURICE BLUMEN- THAL, residingin Brooklyn, inA the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Chair-Mats, of which the following is a specificatie l This invention relates to a 'chair mat.

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History of Filing Cabinet

Posted on: 2022-02-06, Author: Britney Pay,
In: History of Office Furniture,

Today, traditional filing cabinets are slowly being phased out in favor of document management software. In industries like medical research, legal, and insurance, electronic filing systems have become hugely important not only for document organization, but also for collaboration, protection of sensitive information, document retention, and government compliance. Ironically enough, the man who originally dreamed up the idea for the traditional vertical filing cabinet spent most of his life working in insurance—one of the industries that, today, is pushing the trend that is rendering his invention obsolete.

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History of White Marker Board

Posted on: 2022-02-06, Author: Rob Walker,
Ref: https://rwalker.medium.com/
In: History of Office Furniture,

A scientist at Techform Laboratories, Jerry Woolfe, invented the dry erase marker we know today. There's not a ton of information covering how or why Woolfe created the dry erase marker, but the marker made its public debut sometime around 1980

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