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==Concept of the folding bed==
Most customers of Goode's furniture store were working-class people who lived in small apartments that couldn’t fit a lot of furniture, including beds.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Sarah E. Goode |url=https://www.biography.com/inventor/sarah-e-goode |access-date=2022-12-07 |website=Biography |date= 23 February 2021|language=en-us}}</ref> As well as this, at the time of her invention, New York City passed a law that restricted buildings to be under {{convert|80|feet}}. [[Tenement]] buildings were also restricted to footprints of {{convert|25|by|100|ft}}.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tenements |url=https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/tenements |access-date=2022-12-07 |website=HISTORY |date=10 October 2019 |language=en}}</ref> As Goode heard this problem from her customers in Chicago, she set out to help Chicago apartment dwellers with limited space in their apartments.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Boyd |first=Herb |date=2016-07-14 |title=Inventor Sarah E. Goode, the first Black woman awarded a patent |url=http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2016/07/14/inventor-sarah-e-goode-first-black-woman-awarded-p/ |access-date=2022-12-07 |website=New York Amsterdam News |language=en-US}}</ref> Goode invented a folding bed that would become the precursor to the [[Murphy bed|Murphy Bed]] - a hide-away bed. It was a cabinet bed which folded into a roll-top desk which had compartments for writing supplies and stationery.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-11-05 |title=Sarah E. Goode (c.1855?-1905) • |url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/goode-sarah-e-c-1855-1905/ |access-date=2022-12-07 |language=en-US}}</ref> Her goal
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