Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Is it true that there were no doorknobs until a young black man invented them in 1878?" video.

  1. In this case, it wasn't a patent for a doorknob, but an improvement on an idea to keep a door from slamming shut over the wind. The knob was only connected to it, but that lot, evidently can't read, or they can't understand very simple words. Before the US started manufacturing its own hardware, they imported it from Britain, where solid brass doorknobs were imported, which had been turned on lathes. That was way before this.
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  2. In this case, we Americans were buying solid brass doorknobs, turned on lathes, from the British long before this guy obtained a patent for a device to not allow a door to slam shut with the wind. The patent wasn't about a doorknob, but what was connected to it. It was an improvement on something already invented, but, of course, most from that group would be lucky to have even read it. "Oh, look, dare's a doorknob, he's enn-vented et!"
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  3. Look for this article, titled: The American Doorknob, at Antique Homes.
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