I haven’t found anything scientific about this, but box springs are wooden slats sideways for even distribution of weight, but wouldn’t the floor be better? Does it damage the bed or affect sleep?
Or are box springs a solution to the manufactured problem of raising beds on bed frames?
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None of the above.
There are too many false assumptions here. It is not a manufactured problem, it is not a weight distribution issue the answer is heat.
The science here is why we need a separation from the ground the answer is thermal conduction. You’re looking at the wrong issues hence why you’re having trouble finding anything.
Direct contact with a cool surface will bleed heat out of us so we separate from it. The ground is cold we are warm warm moves to cold to put it as simply as I can. The entire purpose is to keep us comfortable and that means warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Why we use a box spring and frame? The air gap. It keeps us warm and keeps us cool. How does it do both? air temperature isn’t constant it changes both artificially and naturally.
The form the bed takes? that’s the history of technology and culture not science.
Remember sleeping mats, hammocks and futons exist so the idea of it must be this way isn’t true it’s just how we do things because it’s comfortable. Look to the past and you’ll get your answer as to how the modern bed got its form.
Long story short as our materials got better and more easily made we changed up the bed to make it more comfortable and cheaper to produce that’s it.
Things that happened:
Springs replaced stuffing.
Cotton and Foam replaced horse hair, scrap wool or plated straw.
Reliable artificial heat caused us to drop things bed curtains and cupboard beds and dictated the shape.
Steel replaced wood in structure.
sawmill cut wood, as opposed to hand cut, allowed for cheaper production which allowed for slats.
The box spring replaced rope or wire which was lumpy as fuck. Rope needs to be tightened occasionally.
Flat pack brought back slats.
The purpose has been always to keep us off the ground.
Modern beds are adapted to modern lives.
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