Reply With QuoteRobert Owen (14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858), a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, was one founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen
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I'm fairly sure a Welshman from Newport invented the concept of patents and established the first Patent Office in his home town.Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
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
Robert Owen (14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858), a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, was one founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen
John Frost (25 May 1784 – 27 July 1877) was a prominent leader of the British Chartist movement in the Newport Rising.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frost_(Chartist)
Alfie Thomas that rugby bloke
Ryan and Ronnie, or something like that. Pioneers of outstanding Welsh comedy..
That fat bloke who sings the go compare adverts dressed as an opera singer
And gets paid to do stand up at tory party fundraising meetings
That bloke who did that do the ayatollah video for the fa cup final
That was brilliant that was
He will go down in the history books
Bryn Terfyl
Proud welshmen, supports manchester united , who are english
Anyone from Wales that supports an English team is clearly not proud of where they’re from. To me, supporting teams (and acting like you’re a part of it) because they’re successful indicates a personality flaw.
That's after 1876. He produced "wadding" in 1855, and did research in 1888 where he then "produced" sleeping bags in 1889. That's 23 years after PRYCE sold 60,000 of his sleeping bags to the Russian Army.
Nope regarding the concept of patents. That was around in Ancient Greece and 15th century Venice.
This is all very curious and I think something we really need to get to the bottom of. Further research has revealed the following.
As it turns out, the modern-day outdoorsman has the French to thank for the creation of sleeping bags as we loosely know them. In the 1850s, French customs officials patrolled the Pyrenees between Spain and France. Naturally, they needed to keep warm overnight so they created a knapsack bag from sheepskin. They lined the interior with wool and then attached some buckles so they could roll it up during the day. It wasn't pretty and I don't imagine nightly bathroom breaks were easy, but the bag got the job done!
The evolution continued into the 1870s when a Welsh inventor named Pryce Pryce-Jones created the first commercially successful sleeping bag. As the father of the mail order business, P.J. was bound to have an entrepreneurial spirit and proved that with the Euklisia Rug.
The Euklisia Rug was a wool blanket with a pocket near the top for a sewn in, inflatable rubber pillow. Users just climbed in, folded the blanket over their bodies, and fastened the sides together. It seems so simple but this design style eliminated the hassle of men climbing into sack-like sleeping bags. In fact, it was so popular that PJ immediately sold 60,000 bags to the Russian army to be used during the Siege of Plevna during the Russo-Turkish War.
Unfortunately for PJ, the city fell before the Russian Army fulfilled their entire order, so he was stuck with 17,000 unused Euklisia Rugs. Never one to sit idle, he added the Rug to his catalog and marketed it as inexpensive bedding for charities. The Rug gained traction, and it was soon being used by outdoor adventurers in the Australian Outback and the British Army.
https://www.sierra.com/blog/lifestyl...-sleeping-bag/
When I was a kid I invented a Cardiff cream sundae.
You had to use Lowes pop and Thayers ice cream.
PROUD.
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