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TIDBITS DOES
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“This is the way we wash our clothes, wash our clothes, wash our clothes,” goes the old ditty. This week Tidbits delves into the history of the process of doing the laundry and gives credit due to the folks whose inventive minds have made this modern task so much less of a chore! • Several inventors conceived of the idea to make washing clothes and linens an easier task. The first drawing of a washing machine idea appeared in the January 1752 issue of a British publication called “The Gentleman’s Magazine.” Then in 1767, Jacob Schaffer published his own design in Germany. Later, a British patent was issued in 1782 to Henry Sidgier for a rotating drum washer. All of these early washers featured enclosed containers with grooves, fingers, or paddles around the interior walls. The user still had to manually turn a crank to rotate and agitate the laundry. • In 1843, Canadian inventor John Turnbull debuted Laundry: Turn to page 3
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