This 1843 Bed Heated Itself 28 Degrees Without Burning a Single Stick of Wood
Автор: Frontier Trapper
Загружено: 2026-01-03
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They laughed at his “cupboard” bed and warned it would suffocate his family. Then the winter of 1843 arrived in northern Vermont, and the numbers told a different story.
In a valley where temperatures plunged well below freezing, a Scottish immigrant named Malcolm Drummond closed two wooden doors and slept twenty-eight degrees warmer than the room around him—without burning a single extra stick of wood.
His box bed worked by trapping still air, using thick pine, wool lining, and careful geometry to turn ordinary body heat into a stable micro-climate. While neighbors burned through firewood and shivered through bone-cold nights, his family slept warm, quiet, and rested.
This documentary explores the forgotten physics behind frontier survival—dead air, thermal mass, airflow, and why heating smaller spaces mattered more than bigger fires.
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Disclaimer:
Visuals in this video are AI-generated. This story is fictionalized for storytelling purposes, while the practical principles and survival concepts shown are real and educational.
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