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England & France
1800's |
Thanks to "Nudiamond" for sending this suggestion for our Inventions Time Line. This wonderful household device was originally tried in England and France in the early 1800s. One early type, called a "ventilator," had the clothes wrung out by hand, place in a cylindrical metal drum with holes or slits in it, and turned by hand over a fire. The clothes would dry out, but they might burn, and they would always smell strongly of smoke, and they might pick up soot from the smoke.  The first electric models appeared in England and North America around 1915. |