What is Waterbed?
[[File:Softside_Waterbed_Inside.JPG|thumb|upright|Waterbed chambers]] A '''waterbed''' is a bed or [[mattress]] filled with [[water]]. Waterbeds intended for [[therapy|medical therapy]] date back to the [[19th century]]. The modern waterbed was [[invented]] [[San Francisco]] in the late 1960s by Charlie Hall.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/who-made-that-water-bed.html |title=Who Made That Water Bed? |author=Pagan Kennedy |date=August 16, 2013 |publisher=The New York Times |access-date=January 8, 2017}}</ref> It was [[patent]]ed in 1971.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://articles.latimes.com/1991-05-15/news/vw-1760_1_water-bed-dealers |title=Someone's Been Lying in Hall's Water Bed : Invention: In the early days, it hardly made sense to sue small-time dealers for patent infringement. But by 1985, 4 million units were sold annually |author=Katherine Corcoran |date=May 15, 1991 |publisher=Los Angeles Times |access-date=January 8, 2017}}</ref> It became a very [[wikt:popular|popular]] in the [[United States]] in the 1980s and 1990s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Waterbeds No Longer a Mainstay Purchase|publisher=Sioux City Journal|url=http://siouxcityjournal.com/special-section/siouxland_life/waterbeds-no-longer-a-mainstay-purchase/article_3c088637-28e1-5716-beaf-c20cc4e6a576.html|access-date=January 8, 2017}}</ref> Waterbeds are made of two types: hard-sided and soft-sided. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Furniture]] {{stub}}