Who invented the washing machine?
For centuries, women washed their laundry with their hands on the stream, rubbing them on the side. Where there were no streams, the laundry was washed in wood, copper or iron basins. In the Sapo region of Rome, casualties were found to be used as soap of the fat-containing ashes of sacrificial animals. Until the end of the 18th century, there was no other laundry method.
In 1782, in London, Henry Sidgier made a wooden, closed laundry boat in hexagon form. The wooden rods placed inside this boat were squeezed into the laundry. Two ends of the boat, two suspended, and then he was rotating with arm power. Based entirely on human labor, this system was exhausting and it took longer than usual methods. The wet laundry removed from the machine was squeezed through the two wooden rollers, so that both water was drained and ironed.
In 1791, a British named Ferguson Hardie developed a system that allows rollers to come both forward and backward with the one-way movement of the roller arm. Thanks to this system, at least the tightening mechanism was provided to a degree of convenience. But still, all the procedures were based on human labor, and it was exhausting.
In America 1797, the brushing board was invented by Nathaniel Briggs to wash the laundry.
At 1851, the American James King patented another washing machine with a drum. The laundry was in this drum and the drum was rotated manually. In 1858, Hamilton Smith patented the rotary washing machine.
In 1874, in Indiana, William Blackstone made a washing machine for his wife as a birthday present.
All the washing machines made up to 1906 years of human power, often remained as amateur trials. Alva John Fisher invented the first electrically operated washing machine. In 1908, Alva Fisher's washing machine was produced by the Hurley Machine Company in Chicago. The machine was named Thor. The patent of this machine was received in 1910 years.
In 1924, the first drying machines were released.
In 1937, the company Bendix Corporation produced the first fully automatic washing machine. Since the 1940s, fully automatic machines have begun to enter the service of housewives.