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This Day in Boston History
December 12th, 1899
The Golf Tee
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On this day
Dr. George F. Grant received patent number 638,920 for the invention of
the golf tee.
Though not the first, Grant was among the earliest black dentists to graduate
from the Harvard Dental School. Though he enjoyed golf, the process of
driving the golf ball involved making a mound of wet sand with bare hands;
Grant disliked dirty hands.
He would became an instructor at Harvard, counting its president, Charles
W. Elliot as his patient. Grant was internationally recognized, not for
his golf creation, but for developing a prosthetic effective in treating
cleft palate, a defect caused when the two sides on the roof of the mouth
join completely during pregnancy.
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