A stool is a widespread and well-known piece of furniture. Most often it can be found in the kitchen or in the dining room. The stool is simple in shape and design, it is very convenient in everyday life, because it does not take up much space. This subject seems so ordinary that the modern person often does not even have questions about who and when invented the stool.
How did the stool appear?
An ordinary stool, according to researchers, was born much earlier than its closest "relative" - a chair. It’s only to establish exactly where, by whom and when exactly this piece of furniture was invented, it is practically impossible. In essence and in appearance, the stool resembles a single bench, which, apparently, was its prototype.
Furniture designed for seating appeared in the homes of the ancestors of modern man a long time ago, when people began to live in artificial buildings. At first, the primitive man had to sit on damp earth, then on skins laid on the stumps of wood, or on pillows made of such skins. But such a seat was not always comfortable - it is difficult to move from place to place.
Most likely, a prototype of a stool was a block of wood cut off from a tree trunk. It was quite simple to make it, but such a seat had a significant drawback - it was bulky and slow. Subsequently, an unknown inventor came up with the idea of putting a horizontal board on two lumps - that is how the bench appeared.
There was only one step left to come up with and develop a project for more compact furniture designed for one person. To a small board, a man adjusted four vertical legs. And so the stool appeared.
The first stools found by archaeologists date back to about the third millennium BC.
