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A substitute for horse-hair was patented in 1806, while in 1813 and 1816 patents were taken out for air-filled cushions and beds. John Clark, a of Bridgewater in Somerset, patented his invention of air-beds, pillows and cushion from caoutchouc, in other words raw uncultivated rubber, using an air pump to fill the mattresses, in 1813. He was followed three years later by an engineer, Samuel Knightsbridge, who also patented a seamless substance which could be filled with air advantages of such air-beds were many. They were light, portable, resistant to not go lumpy, could be soft or firm and even warm or cold. They could also be filled with water or other fluids. Despite the adaptation of Clark's idea by a physician who used improved rubber produced by Macintosh and Company to produce a water or 'hydrostatic bed for invalids', there is no evidence that air or water beds were ever used on a large scale in hospitals or by travellers, let alone in domestic interiors. Problems in maintenance meant that they could not compete with the stuffed mattress, particularly after the introduction of spiral springing.
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