A history of beds
The history of beds began 10,000 years ago in the Neolithic period with people sleeping on piles of skins and plants. Today, these sleeping areas could hardly be classified as a bed, but the small comfort areas laid the basic foundation for the bed concept. Over the years, progress was probably very limited (except for the use of more comfortable materials). The next big breakthrough occurred around 3600 BC. C. in Persia. This involved filling goat skins with water and thus producing the first beds of water, thousands of years before their time. Perhaps the most important idea came from the Egyptians 200 years later (2400 BC), where the pharaohs raised a pallet from the ground. At the time, many of the more common Egyptians slept on palm tree branches stacked in the corner of their houses. It was during the time of the Roman Empire that beds truly became a source of luxury and comfort, at least for the wealthy. The mattresses were stuffed bags and could have included materials such as wool, hay, or reeds for the average citizen. The very rich would have used feathers.
The ruin of Rome and the ruin of the beds:
After the fall of the Roman Empire, bedding technology went into decline. The lowest point was during the Middle Ages, where sleeping areas were no more advanced than those of the Neolithic period. Fortunately, things gradually improved and with the Renaissance, around the 13th or 14th century, mattresses were made mostly of cotton stuffed with straw, hey, or wool. The most luxurious may have been feather-filled silk. The most interesting thing that happened next was in 1865, with the patent for the coil spring mattress. This type of mattress is still widely used today.
20th century beds:
The 20th century saw most of the advancements in beds until now, beginning with the introduction of the Murphy folding bed in 1918. Another progression included: improvements to mattress springs, foam beds, modern waterbeds, and foam mattresses. air. Arguably the most important bedding invention of recent times was memory foam. This was originally developed by NASA in the 1970s to alleviate the G-force in astronauts on takeoff, but was never used for this purpose. Despite this, others saw the potential for memory foams for use in beds and the material is becoming more common for sleeping as time goes on.
The future of beds:
What the future holds for beds is highly uncertain, but one thing we can be sure of is that people will constantly try to find more comfortable and effective methods of sleeping in the future.
