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First household appliances

Having the honor of being born in the late 20th century, few of us think about how life looked without modern technology in the youth of our first parents. Usually on Habré they write about heavy diskettes ( 5 kilobytes per 1 kg ), etc., but let's talk about life today.

The British HistoryPin project sponsored by the charity We Are What We Do and nPower and Mirrorpix are constantly adding new photos to the collection. This collection provides an opportunity to imagine what was the first household appliances.

Here, for example, is one of the first toasters called D12, which was in great demand in the market, manufactured by General Electric, 1909:
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And so the first hair dryer looked. This is the year 1890. The device consisted of two heating devices and a wooden handle:



Dishwasher sample 1969. Joseph Cochrane, who patented the dishwasher back in 1886, is considered the inventor of this home appliance. Since then, the invention has found application where it was necessary to wash a lot of dishes. But in domestic use the dishwasher began to be used only four decades ago:



The Regency TR-1 transistor receiver was the smallest battery-powered radio in 1955:



Such was Henry Hoover’s 1908 vacuum cleaner:



The Motorola DynaTAC 8000x phone was introduced to the public in 1983 and was considered portable and allowed to talk for 30 minutes. In standby mode, he kept 8 hours of work:



The microwave was invented in 1946, it was launched into production in the late 1940s in the USA, and in Britain since 1959. In the photo model of the second half of the 1960s:



The dream of every housewife at the beginning of the twentieth century was a washing machine. Patented the device in 1906. In the photo model, produced in 1927:



Looks like a stove, one of the first receivers of the television signal. The 1930 model was not very popular. Total has sold about a thousand of these TVs:



The first metal refrigerator in 1927 called the Monitor Top. The compressor from above resembled an artillery installation on a warship:



These were the technical indicators of the kettle in 1922: nine minutes and you can brew tea. The first models began to appear from the 1890s:



Would it be interesting to hear what your grandparents told you?

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/168709/


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