In the era of Queen Elizabeth I (1558- 1603), there was a priest named John Harington in England who loved literature at ordinary times and was sentenced to exile for spreading a so-called indecent story. 1584- 159 1 year, he built a house in Kelston, an exile. There, he designed the first toilet in the world. The toilet is connected to the reservoir and installed in this house. He was very proud of this invention and named it after Ajax, the hero in Homer's epic. Since then, Harrington has also written the book "The Metamorphosis of chamber pot", detailing the design of his toilet. However, the British public at that time did not accept this invention, and they still liked to use urinals. Quartz clock: 1929, American engineer Malik first applied the timely crystal to the electric clock. Using electronic method to calculate the crystal vibration frequency, control the motor speed and drive the pointer to display the time, the quartz clock was successfully made. Sofa: No, it's the English name sofa. Simmons: This is a spring mattress. Do you know that Simmons is a person's last name? It was a man named Simmons who invented the soft mattress.
1. 100 years ago, there was a furniture merchant named Zalmon Simmons in America. He heard customers complain that the bed board was too hard and uncomfortable to sleep on, so he used his brain.
He tried many methods, such as stuffing thick cotton into the mattress, which was quickly compacted, but it was still uncomfortable. His eyes lit up when he saw the spring made of wire.
So, he bought a batch of iron wire with moderate thickness, wound it with iron wire, woven it into a bed, wrapped it in a strong cloth bag, and lay comfortably on it.
4. 1900, the world's first spring mattress wrapped in cloth was put on the market and was immediately praised by consumers. People named it after the inventor's surname.
There are more and more people ordering Simmons mattresses, and the manual operation speed is too slow to guarantee the quality. Mr Simmons asked John Gary, a mechanic, to design a machine.
6. It took John three years to finally develop a special machine for processing spring mattresses, which were quickly produced, and Simmons, who slept soundly, entered thousands of households.
A famous brand from America, founded by AxlmonGilberSIMMONS at 1870. Nowadays, "Simmons Simmons" has become synonymous with advanced spring beds. Round table: In the 5th century A.D., King Arthur of England put forward an idea, that is, he and him.
When the knights meet, they are neck and neck and sit around the round table, so.
Avoid disputes caused by the seats of participants. So a "round table" was formed.
Discuss it. "
The round table, regardless of rank, includes "all participants are equal" and "association"
The meaning of business. After World War I, international conferences often used round tables.
The form of. The "round table" has been used to this day.