JF Ptak Science Books Daily Dose from Dr. Odd
Sometimes there are certain things that must not be refused–this is one of them. St. Jerome may have had a number of interesting and complex desks granted him during his imaging heydays in the late Medieval through Renaissance periods, and there have been fabulously simple approaches like the table-top/lap desk of Thomas Jefferson or the Easy-Boy arm desk of Roald Dahl, and there have been desk/floors like that of Albert Einstein, and desk beds like George Costanza‘s, and refigerator-desks like Thomas Wolfe’s, and standing desks like Winston Churchill’s, and non-desks of Sherlock Holmes, and so on; but I think given all of those I’d rather have the desk below, patented by M. McC. Parr in 1898. It seems to have it all, including a possible built-in bed–the only thing it is missing is an engine and a driveshaft and some wheels…you can add the brakes later on.