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I'd imagine variations of the sleeping bag existed loooong before 1876
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delmbox
I'd imagine variations of the sleeping bag existed loooong before 1876
No one had patented it before that date, therefore, he's accredited with inventing it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryofthewo...Ryyc2fOqSjKiLw
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Harry Monk
Yeah I've seen that, not disputing he patented and developed the modern sleeping bag but to say he invented a self enclosed bag for sleeping is probably a stretch
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Harry Monk
Moving on from Sludge's earlier thread about being Welsh and the things NOT to be proud of, here's a few things that WOL might not print in one of their stereo typing "Ten things about...." articles.
Well, as it happens....
https://walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/...ve-2601007.amp
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Baloo
Between this and the sleeping bag fiasco, Monk's had an absolute howler here
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Tried to fix my link but ran out of edit time. This works: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.w...ve-2601007.amp
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Josephson
Brian David Josephson FRS (born 4 January 1940) is a Welsh theoretical physicist and professor emeritus of physics at the University of Cambridge. Best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity and quantum tunnelling, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 for his prediction of the Josephson effect, made in 1962 when he was a 22-year-old PhD student at Cambridge University. Josephson is the only Welshman to have won a Nobel Prize in Physics.
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delmbox
Between this and the sleeping bag fiasco, Monk's had an absolute howler here
If you can find any reference to a sleeping bag prior to 1876 I'll concede.
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Baloo
:yikes:
Maybe I should start reading WOL again.
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lardy
Who invented the skip?
:shrug:
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You’ve missed out that in 1872 Ryan Dafydd Shanks, great great grandfather of Armytage born in Pontlottyn invented and patented the very first Toilet Seat.
Us Paddies put the hole in it in 1873 😂😀🚽🚽🇮🇪
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Harry Monk
If you can find any reference to a sleeping bag prior to 1876 I'll concede.
Native American have transported their children around in papooses for centuries.
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Taunton Blue Genie
Native American have transported their children around in papooses for centuries.
Yet they didn't think of developing it for use by adults.
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Harry Monk
If you can find any reference to a sleeping bag prior to 1876 I'll concede.
Many people claim to have “invented” the sleeping bag. Our own research suggests that the first was developed by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen and the first commercial one that we would recognise was produced with his guidance by the Norwegian company G. Fuglesang AS who had been producing “wadding” since 1855.
https://www.tundrasleepingbags.com/n...e-sleeping-bag
Sorry, not picking on you but we needed to get to the truth about sleeping bags.
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Harry Monk
Yet they didn't think of developing it for use by adults.
I don't know if that's the case but the Welsh guy concerned hardly 'invented' the concept, as you stated.
Native Americans didn't have Patent Office at the time :hehe:
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Baloo
Many people claim to have “invented” the sleeping bag. Our own research suggests that the first was developed by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen and the first commercial one that we would recognise was produced with his guidance by the Norwegian company G. Fuglesang AS who had been producing “wadding” since 1855.
https://www.tundrasleepingbags.com/n...e-sleeping-bag
Sorry, not picking on you but we needed to get to the truth about sleeping bags.
Thanks for doing that, it's incredibly important that this issue is clarified
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Is max Boyce on the list ?
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Nice to see our dead lads doing well. But why should this make me proud?
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lardy
Who invented the skip?
Was it alan partridge?
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lardy
Who invented the skip?
KP.
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valleys caveman
KP.
Bravo, truly :hehe::hehe::hehe:
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lardy
Who invented the skip?
Some basket case!
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Robert Recorde from Tenby invented the = equals sign: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-34259108