Creature Comforts

Think about traveling in a horse drawn wagon sitting on a hard wooden seat, and bouncing along unpaved roads on hard wooden wheels.

Now, think of the comparative luxury of even the most economy automobile. Soft seats, rubber wheels, shocks, air conditioning, all the standard creature comforts we take for granted, and all relaticely recent developments from a historical perspective.

All these things we take for granted are the result of the hard work and ingenuity of those who have gone before. We owe Charles Goodyear for making rubber usable. Charles Dunlop for Tires, and various inventors and thinkers of the past for all the rest.

Not just Historians, but everyone, should remember these men gratefully, for it was their hard work in a hard world that made all our creature comforts possible, even if the price of gas nowdays makes them less useful.