Editing Standing desk (section)

==History==
[[File:Mechanical table (Table mécanique) MET DP102669.jpg|thumb|1778 sit-stand desk made for [[Marie Antoinette]] to use while pregnant.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mechanical table (Table mécanique), 1778, Jean Henri Riesener, French |date=1778 |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/197339 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art (US)}}</ref>]]
Several writers and statesmen wrote standing up: [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[Charles Dickens]], [[Winston Churchill]], [[Ernest Hemingway]],<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Plimpton |first1=George |title=Ernest Hemingway, The Art of Fiction No. 21 |journal=The Paris Review |date=Spring 1958 |issue=18 |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4825/ernest-hemingway-the-art-of-fiction-no-21-ernest-hemingway |url-access=subscription}}</ref> [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Longfellow |first= Henry Wadsworth |date=1882 |title=The Riverside Literature Series: Longfellow's The Children's Hour, Paul Revere's Ride, and other Poems |location= Boston |publisher= Houghton, Mifflin and Company |page= 7}}</ref> and [[Vladimir Nabokov]]. Some of them had specially made desks or [[lectern]]s.<ref name=Ryb2016 >{{cite book|last=Rybczynski|first=Witold|title=Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History|year=2016|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|page=198|isbn= 9780374713355}}</ref>