While searching for impetus during this project I came across a historians account of Benjamin Franklin’s invention of the “Long Arm”, a device that retrieves books from high shelves in a library. Apparently Franklin recognized the need for such a tool while struggling to grasp texts from his own collection. I can empathize with the frustration that must have resulted from a technology void that, for whatever reason, seemed to have been ignored by the collective masses. I’ll bet his friends told told him to invest in a ladder. I recently found myself in a situation that warranted the use of a tool that doesn’t exist. I purchased a box spring mattress that couldn’t  possibly fit through a narrow passage on the route to my bedroom. My “friends” explained that I should simply incise the fabric and sever it’s frame. Once through the narrow passage (in pieces) I could reassemble the mattress in my bedroom. Did I mention that I spent two hundred bucks on this  thing?.....No way! Had it not been for this project I may never have discovered the device that saved my mattress from almost certain worthlessness. Thank you Boxspringhorn and thank you Mr. Franklin.