Quote Originally Posted by Baloo View Post
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.
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.