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@Npars01 @ian When did mass production of vacuum cleaners automated washing machines and other such labour-saving devices start?
AFAIK the fully automated washing machineโthe kind that didn't have wringers (like my mother's) and other things that required you to stand there and babysit the washingโwas sometime in the late '40s or early '50s even. That was one of the greatest free time makers.
๐งต (1/2)
@Npars01 @ian
Same with vacuum cleaners. They were luxury devices only until after WWII where they started to appear in middle class homes en masse. (Hell, before the 1930s they were massive machines driven house to house in wealthy neighbourhoods to clean them!)
In both cases it was the newfound desire for women to be freed from drudgery that drove the introduction of and/or mass production of genuine labour-saving devices. A societal change drove technological innovation, in short.
๐งต (2/2)
@Npars01 @ian
Same with vacuum cleaners. They were luxury devices only until after WWII where they started to appear in middle class homes en masse. (Hell, before the 1930s they were massive machines driven house to house in wealthy neighbourhoods to clean them!)
In both cases it was the newfound desire for women to be freed from drudgery that drove the introduction of and/or mass production of genuine labour-saving devices. A societal change drove technological innovation, in short.