Today’s clothes hangers are modeled after an early rudimentary design by Albert J. Parkhouse in1903. He was an employee of Timberlake Wire and Novelty Company in Jackson, Michigan.
Parkhouse created the device that we now know as the coat hanger because co-workers had “complaints of too few coat hooks. He bent a piece of wire into two ovals with the ends twisted together to form a hook.” He patented his invention but it’s not known if he actually profited from it or not.
