The Treadmill
Patented: History of Inventions
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Prison Reform in the Late 18th Century
Before the late 18th century imprisonment was not often used as a punishment for those who were convicted of crime. This began to change in the second half of the 18th century, and this was partly in response to the war with America that was happening in the 1770s. In other words, enter William Kubitt. The penal treadmill itself was the product of the penal reform movement in Britain during the late18th and early 19th century.
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