Terry Prone: I'm declaring it right now, a woman invented the bed

Heinrich Westphal is generally credited with nicking springs out of something else and applying them to a mattress, but women have a track record of looking at problems with their brains and bouncing potential solutions around

Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr in 1941, around the time she and composer George Antheil were designing a radio guidance system which went on to become tech crucial to mobile telephony. They patented it in 1942. File picture: AP

Not being sexist or anything, but who’s with me if I propose that it was a woman who invented the bed?

We don’t actually have a clue who invented it, but I put it to you that we owe them our health, happiness and much of our procreative practices. Nothing in our lives, other than perhaps underwear, embraces us for eight hours a day and sends us off improved.