The sad story of the first Englishman who used an umbrella

Many inventors strive to find ingenious solutions to everyday problems.Most of these inventions, such as fashion, come and go.Items and utensils that seemed to remain forever have become obsolete or have been replaced shortly.That is why the sad story of the first Englishman who used an umbrella is so striking, an object that we still use today.Join us to meet her and you will discover how sometimes most He is right.

The story of the first Englishman who used an umbrella

Jonas Hanway was an Englishman who at the beginning of the 1750s returned from a trip to Paris with a gadget called "umbrella." Until that time, in a rainy climate like the English, no one had dared to protect their heads more than with shawls, hats, sheltering under a canopy or using some type of transport in order to travel dry on the streets s.

The use of umbrellas to protect from the sun had been brought from the east and was customary in the French court.At the beginning of the 18th century, a Frenchman named Jean Marius thought that if that gadget protected from the sun it could also do it, with the right cloth, from rain and snow .I create a model low weight and with waterproof fabric that began to be sold among Parisians, getting to buy one, in 1712, a royal princess.From that moment the umbrella was all the rage and all the women of the nobility had one.

Hanway took him to his country and believed that with the invention he would do business quickly.However, the use of the umbrella would still take decades to impose.What happened so that it would not be accepted ? L The English believed that a man should get wet with the rain and use the umbrella was to demonstrate little manliness, cowardice and be a bastard , not in vain they baptized their users as “mincing Frenchmen” ( French prim)) Hanway, for being the first, took the worst part.In addition to having to listen as criticized he had to suffer the wrath of the drivers of carriages The time, when it started to rain, they made their August since not to get wet, people took the transport to travel the streets.The drivers, every time it rained and saw Hanway with his umbrella open, they threw all kinds of garbage and crap afraid of fashion spreading and losing their business.

The sad story of the first Englishman who used an umbrella

Carrying an umbrella became a way of and make a fool of himself in public..Hanway's business failed remarkably, but the invention was shifting imperceptibly.A few months after Hanway's death, which occurred in 1786 , appeared an announcement of umbrellas or umbrellas waterproofed for rain , which opened and closed easily, in the "London Gazette".The use began to spread throughout England and in every city and town there was a "Hanway": an innovator who did not care about criticism or contravene social norms for not getting wet.It seemed that society was changing.

What do you think about the Hanway story? Did you know that it took so long to use the umbrella? If you were interested in this post, you might want to read:

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