umbrella

 It was either the chinese or ancient egyptians who first invented the umbrella.

  Early records from both cults indicate that umbrellas were used to screen monarchs

 and people of high standing from sun.

  the job of hosting an umbrella above

the emperor was often resreserved for servent of highest rank.

  The chinese developed the technology further, waxing their paper parasols to 

provident production from rain.  Around four thousand

years ago the chinesh also made there umbrellas collapsible and since then the

 overall design has changed very little.  

making its way to Rome and greece, the umbrellas was used to shade woman and attending

 the open-air theater.  These umbrella were made from reach leather or skins.  

The umberalls reached england at start of the

eighteenth century, during the region og queen anne, were used only by woman for prodution

 from the rain.  These umbrellas became difficult to open or close when wet.  

But umberall use was discourage by the intention towet the faithful and later on by carriage

drivers, who lost business from people who chould walk comfortable in inclement weather.

  The umberalla's assocation with femininity was finally shaken off in the mid-eighteenth 

century when a writer and hospital

founder named jonas Hanway began to carry one.  an umbrella to ward off heat and cold.