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Clothes washer
In the good old days, clothes were washed in a stream, by pounding the garments with rocks, stones and heavy sticks.
Fire added heat to the laundry mix, when clothes were washed in tubes with water heated over open fires and soap made at home from a combination of lye and ashes. Clothes were scrubbed on a corrugated board, wrung by hand, rinsed, then wrung again, and draped on lines or bushes to dry.
Women’s hands were freed by 1927, when wringer washers become stand-ard, eliminating the washboard, open tubs and the boiler. A few “pumps” with the foot started the motor of the machine and kept it humming.
The first automatic washer – one that washed, rinsed and extracted water from clothes in one process – debuted at a county fair in Louisiana, in Septem-ber of 1937.
After World War II, the demand for washers was enormous. By 1953, au-tomatic washers were outselling wringer washers ten to one. Today, washers offer a variety of different features.
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