Last night as I was laying in bed trying to stay warm
with two hot-water bottles, I got to thinking about a water bed. If I just
bought about 15 more hot-water bottles and filled them up with hot water I
could cover my bed, sleep warm, and have a water bed. I began to wonder
if the person who created the waterbed started with this idea. I decided to
look it up this morning, found a couple websites that explained it, and this
was the one I liked best.
Who Invented the waterbed?
The earliest recorded use of a
'waterbed' was over 3000 years ago when Persians slumbered on sun-warmed goat
skin water bags. Modern waterbeds were first devised by a British physician,
Dr. William Hooper, in 1851. He recognized the benefits of a
pressure reduced surface in the treatment of a number of medical conditions
and made a basic water filled mattress from rubber. Finally, in the 1960's an
American, Charles Hall, refined the construction using hi-tech materials and
sophisticated production techniques into the PVC based mattresses we are
familiar with today.
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from http://www.waterbed.co.uk/faq01.html
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So it actually sounds like the sun-warmed goat skins were
hot water bottles of sorts. Just wanted you to be informed and if you get a
chance, bring this fact up in conversation with someone today!
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