If you ’re read this post there ’s a pretty good chance you ’re doing so on a computer . You ’re credibly sitting in a superbly ergonomic office death chair too . We have Charles Darwin to give thanks for the latter — sort of .
Darwin was a ill-famed workaholic . Though he pass many years gallivant around the globe collecting specimens , at some point he had to sit down and actually study them . billet chairs had n’t been invented yet , so Darwin slapped some wheels on the to feet of his chairperson so he could figure out faster . It ’s basically an armchair on wheel which is n’t what we ’re used to , but it was ahead of its time . It take people a long time to accept Descent of Man , too .
The office chair in reality went into mass yield long before Darwin ’s ideas were wide embraced . But we have industrialization to thank for its advent . With the boost of the clerical proletarian in the second half of the 19th century , situation chairs were take over to facilitate sit comfortably for long periods of meter . They have since evolved intothe wondersthat are still save our asses today .
https://gizmodo.com/daily-desired-an-office-chair-worth-dying-in-5838091
Image fromWellcome LibraryviaCold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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