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28 sty 2024 · From beds for Roman newlyweds, to "hangover" benches for 19th-Century workers: the pursuit of a good night's sleep has followed us through the ages.
22 lut 2024 · The bed, a fundamental piece of furniture in our daily lives, was not invented by a single person but gradually evolved through the collaborative innovations of various ancient civilizations. As an integral part of human existence, the bed has mirrored our societal changes, technological advancements, and cultural shifts.
24 paź 2019 · The first beds. The earliest known bed, made of woven weeds and rushes, was found in a 77,000-year-old cave in South Africa. “You’d think they would have been full of bugs, but people lined them and covered themselves with a bundle of grasses from the nearby river, which acted as insect repellent,” says Fagan, professor emeritus of ...
The History of Beds. Humans first started to use a mattress, or a type of more permanent bedding, as soon as we began to abandon our nomadic behavior and turn to long-term residences. This shift to more permanent housing, often in caves, was largely caused by our desire to focus more on agriculture and sustainable life in one single location ...
2 paź 2021 · The bed develops as humans began to built long-term settlements or more permanent dwelling places by around 8000-7000 BCE. Before this time, beds were mostly ad hoc construction that would have been made from surrounding materials (e.g., straw or twigs) and often discarded as human populations moved or easily packed.
12 mar 2019 · History of Sleep in the Modern World – Mattress Advances. In the post-Renaissance West, advances in the technology of good sleep were mostly minor. Then, in 1871, a major step forward. A German inventor, Heinrich Westphal, patented the first innerspring mattress and it remains our most popular sleep surface today.
Test your knowledge by guessing which of the Fab Four said what. Explore stone 'mattresses' from 5,000 years ago, Van Gogh's bedroom and John and Yoko's protest from a hotel room.
