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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.

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What chemical do hatters use?

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".


When did mad as a hatter first originate?

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.


At the tea party is the Hare considered a hatter too or is the Mad Hatter the only one?

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".


What is the mad hatters fulll name?

The Mad Hatter's full name is typically given as "Hatter," but in some adaptations, such as the 2010 film "Alice in Wonderland" directed by Tim Burton, he is referred to as "Tarrant Hightopp." In Lewis Carroll's original works, he remains largely unnamed beyond his title, the Mad Hatter. His character is known for his eccentricity and love of tea parties.


How many days wrong was the hatters watch?

1