Camp bed

A camp bed, or cot in North America, is a small portable, lightweight bed used in situations where larger permanent beds cannot be used. The main advantage of this bed is its portability and compactness. Camp beds are generally used by armies or organizations, in tourism, and in emergency situations when there is a need to quickly provide accommodation for victims.

Camp bed

Camp beds generally consist of a foldable lightweight wood or metal frame, covered with canvas, linen or nylon.

The first camp beds were probably used by the Roman army. During the Soviet period, the lack of housing caused a massive use of camp beds that made them irreplaceable, iconic elements of the Soviet life.

  • Various camp beds
  • German soldier on a collapsible camp bed, 1941
  • American Army Folding Bed, used in World War II
  • Collapsed camp bed
  • French portable field bed with mosquito net
  • An aluminum folding bed, typical for many Eastern Bloc countries
  • Cots for potential evacuees from the 2007 California wildfires
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gollark: As long as they can automatically drive through big urban centers, and they can get cities on board, it would probably do the job.
gollark: Instead of trying to make them work *everywhere*, and having massively overspecced batteries for most journeys.
gollark: I think a much better approach for self-driving cars would just be to have rentable self-driving short-range electric cars in big cities and stuff, which would use only whitelisted roads where you can make sure to apply necessary standardization and add whatever infrastructure is needed.
gollark: Lots of personal data, or at least stuff you could derive personal data *from*, too.

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