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A new archive from website historypin.com, in
collaboration with npower and Mirrorpix, is collecting pictures from the
past. Like 1960s dishwasher by Charles Colston Ltd cost 85 guineas or
The first electric hair dryer was invented in 1890 by French salon owner
Alexandre Godefoy and many others.
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A new archive from website historypin.com, in collaboration with npower
and Mirrorpix, is collecting pictures from the past. This 1960s
dishwasher by Charles Colston Ltd cost 85 guineas. The first dishwasher
was patented in 1886 by Josephine Cockrane, but was taken up only by
businesses because of the amount of hot water required to run it. Home
dishwashers became more common in the 1970s.
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The microwave oven was invented in 1946. It launched in the US in the
late 1940s and in Britain in 1959. This model is from the late 1960s.
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The first commercially successful toaster was the D12, launched by
General Electric in 1909. A British firm called Crompton & Company is
known to have designed an electric toaster in 1893.
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The Regency TR-1 transistor radio was the smallest wireless radio on the
market in 1955.
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The "tin stove" television was designed for John Logie Baird by Percy
Packman in 1930, but sold only about 1,000 sets as it was cheaper to buy
a DIY TV kit. The first broadcasts went out in 1929.
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The comparatively futuristic Commodore VIC-20 8-bit home computer was
released in 1980. More images from the Remember How We Used To series
can be found at Historypin's website.
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The 1927 Monitor Top refrigerator got its name from the exposed
compressor on the top of it, which was said to resemble the cylindrical
turret of the civil war gunship, USS Monitor. It was the first fridge to
be made completely from steel rather than wood.
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The first electric hair-dryer was invented in 1890 by French salon owner
Alexandre Godefoy. This aluminium hairdryer from 1925 had two heat
settings and a wooden handle.
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The DynaTAC 800x portable phone offered 30 minutes of talk time or eight
hours on standby. It was launched in 1983 and cost $3,995 (£2,553).
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The electric washing machine dates back to 1906. The Thor Electric
Washing Machine and Mangle, pictured, is from 1927 and was one of the
first models to feature an electric dolly which "agitated" the washing
rather than the tub tumbling it around.
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William Henry Hoover purchased a patent for the vacuum cleaner in 1908.
This was his first commercial version - Model 0 - used here back in the
1920s. |