Inventors of key artefacts of living ought to be loved and remembered

Sir John Lubbock invented the bank holiday. Let’s have a small respectful silence for Sir John, writes Terry Prone

ONE of the great injustices of history is that the names of those who invented the really significant artefacts of living have gone unrecorded. Nobody knows who came up with the scissors. Nobody can tell you who invented the paper clip. But chief of those worthwhile artefacts with an unknown inventor is the bed.

Nobody knows who moved us out of hammocks and off the floor by developing the most wonderful item in anybody’s home, which is unfair. The inventor of the bed has made such a difference to human happiness, not to mention procreation, they should at least get a knighthood and some of us would be pushing for a sainthood for him or her.