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Lautrec in bed 1893
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Portable bed

A bed is a piece of furniture that people sleep on. It normally has a soft mattress on a bed frame. Many beds also have bed sheets to cover the mattress and additional sheets for the people to sleep under. People also use a pillow under their heads. A bed comes in many different sizes including a single, double and king size.

History

A 10 feet high ancient bed in National Museum of Bangladesh collected from Lohagara,Narail
A 10 feet high ancient bed in National Museum of Bangladesh

Prehistoric people used naturally material, such as piles of straw or leaves, to sleep on. Beds similar to ones used today were probably invented before the 4th millennium BC. Mattresses stuffed with feathers were first used in Ancient Rome.

Types of beds

There are several kinds of bed in use today. Several terms refer to the size of the mattress. Some kinds are usually temporary, such as camp cots, air mattresses, and hammocks.


Images for kids

  • 2008-04-12 Freilichtmuseum Detmold (11)

    Bedroom on the Detmold Open-air Museum premises

  • Bed in hotel room 5

    Modern day beds.

  • Tutankhamun's bed (Cairo Museum)

    Tutankhamun's gilded bed from the 14th century BC

  • Skara Brae-maison

    The stone boxes are thought to have held bedding. Skara Brae (occupied 3180 BC to about 2500 BC)

  • Headrest with Two Images of the God Bes, ca. 1539-1190 B.C.E.,37.435E

    Headrest with two images of the God Bes, c. 1539–1190 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

  • Southampton Medieval Merchant's House bedroom

    Southampton Medieval Merchant's House bedroom

  • Compiègne Château 09

    Napoleon's bed (château de Compiègne)

  • Bed of Ware

    The Great Bed of Ware, one of the largest beds in the world

  • Warsaw Royal Castle GM (14)

    Lit à la polonaise (Polish style bed), Royal Castle in Warsaw, 18th century.

  • Sarahgoodebed

    Patent #322,177, on 14 July 1885 issued to Sarah E. Goode for a cabinet bed

  • Trauergerüst

    Drawing of a candle-lit mourning bed (Trauergerüst) for abbess Franziska Christine von Pfalz-Sulzbach, 1776

  • Daughter's bed, Shikumen Open House Museum 1

    Chinese style beds

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