"US Patent No. 78312 Swimming Device by A. Biedermann & J. Howald framed sphere art drawn with the quiet precision

drawn with the quiet precision of a man who knew exactly how a caddie shouldered the day

formed the beating heart around which all the stars of the Milky Way revolved

and a hand-chalked break were the working language of the green-felt parlor

2317 M Doherty Cricket Bat February 22 1859 reads as a quiet study of willow and splice

The likeness carries that wild

"US Patent No. 78312 Swimming Device by A. Biedermann & J. Howald framed sphere art drawn with the quiet precisionUs Patent No. 78312 Swimming Device by a Biedermann J Howald February 21 1950 Howald's apparatus belongs to that mid century moment when the backyard pool was becoming an American fixture and inventors raced to teach the country how to float, the schematic charting straps, buoyant panels, and the quiet geometry of a body suspended in water. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark