HWB Mobility - Beds with adjustable side rails first appeared in Britain some time between 1815 and 1825. In 1874 the mattress company Andrew Wuest and Son, Cincinnati, Ohio, registered a patent
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1920, historical, picture shows boys in their metal hospital beds on wheels lined up outside their hospital ward, ready for an inspection at a nurses passing out ceremony, England, UK Stock Photo -
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Schumacher's hip; man in hospital bed with nurse, Bloomington-Normal, IL 1942 - Pantagraph Negative Collection, 1940 - 1945 - Illinois Digital Archives
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