Chapter 408: Heating in Bed
At night, Purficott had already fallen asleep.
Although she still stayed in an ordinary civilian house in the underground city and did not light a stove to keep warm, overall she did not feel very cold at night.
On the one hand, she covered her body with a thick enough quilt, which is also a common way for ordinary people to keep out the cold at night. As long as two layers are covered, it can basically effectively keep out the cold.
Although these quilts are not stuffed with cotton, but with linen.
Although with the development of the Industrial Revolution during this period, the cotton textile industry has occupied a very important and dominant position in the textile industry, in most cases cotton is still spun into cotton yarn and then woven into cotton cloth.
Cotton cloth will be processed into various textiles, and will also be made into clothing for sale, but adding cotton batting to quilts to keep them warm is not a popular practice in the Victoria Empire.
In fact, making a quilt is not a simple matter. It does not mean just stuffing cotton into the quilt.
The old world of this world, like Europe in the original world before Perficott traveled through, is not suitable for the growth of cotton, which also leads to the fact that the countries in the old world of this world do not play cotton. Important skills.
They can only spin cotton into threads like wool, and then make cotton cloth. They cannot process cotton into cotton batting for warmth.
During this period, European countries were still using their traditional cashmere fabrics, and the world was naturally the same. Most people used heavy woolen clothes to keep warm in winter, but this was limited to nobles.
Ordinary people still mostly use linen as the raw material for clothing. In winter, it is good to have a cashmere blanket or linen quilt to keep out the cold.
In the 18th century in the original world, most of the cotton cloth produced by the British was exported, and its main export direction was South America.
There is actually a very interesting little story here, that is, in the 17th century, cotton textiles had just become popular in Europe, but Europe did not produce cotton at that time, so it can be said that cotton was highly dependent on it. import.
At that time, the main places where Europe could import cotton were India and the New World of America. Indian cotton became very popular immediately after entering Europe.
This is a cheap textile that is equal to linen in quality but only one third of the price. Naturally, it was quickly welcomed by ordinary people.
However, the British government at the time finally issued a decree banning the use of cotton for reasons such as protecting the local textile industry.
Because there was a law promulgated at that time that "muslins, scarves, cotton and linen blended coarse cloths, and single-color dark blue cotton fabrics are not applicable to this law", so later jeans made of cotton textile canvas were It will be dark blue, which is also a little historical joke.
In addition, cotton clothes in this period were mostly used as summer clothes. This is why pure cotton clothes are considered pornographic. They are semi-permeable and stick when wet. On the body!
So in this era, the technology of using cotton to keep out the cold was not highlighted.
If this problem had been realized a few years before the disaster, Perficott might have taught the textile factories of this world how to make cotton batting, thus making things like cotton-padded jackets and quilts stand out.
But now that we have reached this stage, it is less than a year before the end of the world, and it does not make much sense to use these technologies anymore. One year is not enough time for those textile factories to digest the technology, not to mention that in the last year the empire will move all the industrial production capacity it can to the north. It is estimated that they will not have much time to produce cotton textiles.
And more importantly, with the arrival of the end of the world, the main producing areas of cotton will also fall into a cold winter, and they will no longer be able to grow crops. Even if they are grown, they will not be able to recover from the past. Same as shipping by sea.
So the main raw materials for the textile industry in the future will transition from natural fibers to synthetic fibers. This has been ensured by Perfecticot through Weier’s research results. Currently, clothes and other textiles made of synthetic fibers It has also been put on the shelves in the north, but it is not yet completely popular and popular.
If it were replaced by textiles made of synthetic fibers, Purficott felt that at least he would not have to put a thermos under the quilt to ensure that he would not wake up from the cold at night.
This is another important reason why Purficott didn't feel cold. She put a copper thermos under the quilt.
This kind of thermos is actually just a container. The use of copper is just to avoid staining the quilt. It is not impossible for ordinary people to use cast iron, but the heat conductivity of iron is not as good as copper.
It will be filled with hot water, and the heat released by the hot water will ensure that it can resist the cold at night.
Putting such a thermos under the quilt when sleeping at night can indeed prevent cold and warmth to a great extent and avoid waking up from freezing in the middle of the night.
Purficott also suddenly remembered that she had such a hand, so she rubbed a copper thermos according to the memory of her childhood and put it into the quilt so that she could sleep more comfortably at night.
As for hot water? Although residents of Chernobog don’t light stoves to save money when sleeping at night, that doesn’t mean they can’t even heat hot water.
This also makes Purficott think that maybe he can have some thermoses processed and sold at a low price, so that these people can live a more comfortable life.
After all, I don’t want to light a stove and burn coal to keep out the cold. It’s always okay to boil a pot of hot water, right?
Perfect still remembers that when she was a child, her home was kept warm in the winter. When she got up the next morning, the water in the thermos was still a little warm, and she could pour it out just enough to wash her face. brush teeth.
However, when conditions improved, these were no longer used. At home, electric blankets and duvets were used to keep out the cold. Later, they even developed into electric heaters, heater air conditioners, floor heating and other cold-proof equipment. Winter was already very cold. It's hard to feel cold anymore.
The thoughts in his mind made Purficott not sleep very deeply, especially because the temperature in the room was always relatively low. Although the bed was very warm, his head still felt cold when it was exposed to the outside, which also caused She felt a little headache and couldn't sleep due to tossing and turning.
Fortunately, the dungeon was relatively quiet, which finally made Perfectcott, who was used to a quiet sleeping environment, not feel too uncomfortable.
However, just when Purficott finally felt sleepy and fell into a trance, a scream suddenly came: "There's a fire! Someone come and put out the fire!"
This scream broke the tranquility of the night, causing Perfectcott to wake up from his sleep.
(End of this chapter)