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?Mattress ? - origin of this word.

The history of origin of a word ?mattress’ deserves separate description, first of all because actually this word is more senior, than we can imagine. We shall begin with that a word mattress, and to be more precise the term defining the sleeping accessory, has come to Europe from the Near East. At the beginning of the Middle Ages, east culture, in particular, Arabian, was more developed than European, at least, practically, in the east asceticism was not developed, everything that was created for the person, was made to be used it with the maximum comfort. ?ne of such subjects intended for comfort and a coziness were pillows for dream, which Arabs threw on the floor in the specially places intended for that. The initial word which subsequently has served for the name of the mattresses was ?Taraha? (from Arabian - to throw), and ?Matrah? (the special place intended for throwing of the pillows and mats).

Europeans have adopted this innovation from Arabs, namely, the dream on the soft, magnificent surfaces, only at the time of Crusades, having picked up and the original name which in old Italian sounded as ?materasso? and later, in old French ? ?materas?, for the first time it was mentioned in written form approximately in 1300. The Arabian name served, also, as a source for more habitual, and, subsequently, recognized scientific Medieval Latin ?matracium?.

There is, also, another, a little generalized, but more common for us the interpretation of the term mattress - (according to the etymological dictionary) - it is a soft or elastic laying for lying. It is usually put on a bed. Can be filled or with the springs etc. Both variants of the writing of the mattress are equal. The writing of a word “mattress” comes from German ? matratze?, “mattress” from Dutch ?matras?, meaning ?sack?; a bed, a laying for a dream, filled with the hair, wool, bast and so on and so forth.

From the history of mattresses- interesting inventions

The improbable quantity of different illnesses, when using of the first mattresses, caused the fact that, there was practically no ventilation in them. Because of the difference of the temperatures and condensation of moisture in a mattress which had no place to leave, the fillers, and more often there were natural components, which means vegetative or animal organic, started to decay, forming inside the mattress unpleasant smell, unhealthy, and very often deadly - dangerous micro climate.

The authors of the inventions which would allowed to provide the qualitative air circulation inside the mattress, Barnes and Allen, have patented on January, 10th, 1871 the device consisting of tubes, made in the form of springs and covered with rough fabric (for their prevention to be filled with small parts of the fillers). The tubes had an exit outside of the mattress, providing constant inflow of the fresh air. The cost of such ventilating device was very low, but is considerable made it long the service life of the mattresses and made dream more healthy and comfortable.

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