The Mad Hatter is a hatter. He makes and sells hats for a living.
Not too many years ago, hatters used mercury. Mercury is toxic and causes symptoms which appear similar to 'madness'. Unfortunately, that is why so many of them seemed to go crazy prior to their deaths. Hence the phrase "as mad as a hatter".
In the eighteenth and ninrteenth centuries felt hats were cured using mercury. Mercury is extremely toxic and poisoning by this substance causes symptoms similar to 'madness'. Many hatters of the time were made ill or even killed as a result of mercury poisoning.
Only the Mad Hatter is a hatter. The name "The Mad Hatters Tea Party" might suggest that there is more than one hatter there, but if you put the apostrophe in the correct place it becomes "The Mad Hatter's Tea Party", which means, "the tea party belonging to the Mad Hatter".
in the 1800's nearly Everyone would wear a top hat. the hatter would always make his hats by hand. The process of making a hats involves some chemicals and one of those chemicals would be mercury. Hatters would take hours inside a closed area with no fresh air and the mercury would make them go crazy or mad. Hatters would mostly always known to be a little crazy or insane and that is where the cliche was formed.
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The Mad Hatters was created in 1935.
Mad Hatters - 1920 was released on: USA: 24 October 1920
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries hat makers were known as 'hatters'. At that time it mercury was used in the hat making process, but mercury is very toxic and can cause illness which makes the sufferer appear crazy or 'mad'. So many hatters had mercury poisoning that the terms 'as mad as a hatter' and 'mad hatters' entered into common parlance.
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mercury
No , she wasn’t
OCD, Narcissism, Cleanliness fetish
They didn't go mad. Beaver hats are still made and there are no mad hatters
The Dormouse is a character in "A Mad Tea Party".
They didn't go mad. Beaver hats are still made and there are no mad hatters
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10/6 or ten shillings and sixpence.