Portable desk

Benjamin Randolph after a design by Thomas Jefferson. Portable writing desk, Philadelphia, 1776.

The portable desk had many forms and is an ancestor of the portable computer, the modern laptop an atavistic grandchild of the 19th-century lap desk.

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