USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The advent of modern appliances such as washing machines and refrigerators had a profound impact on 20th Century society, according to a new study. Plug-in conveniences transformed women’s lives and enabled them to enter the workforce.

Detailed explanation-2: -James King in 1851 created the first washing machine to use a drum, Hamilton Smith in 1858 patented a rotary version, and in 1868 Thomas Bradford, a British inventor, created a commercially successful machine that resembles the modern device.

Detailed explanation-3: -Technological advances in the late 1800s had a limited effect in women’s housework. Despite the new advances, like electric vacuums, women still spent the same amount of time doing housework if their house didn’t have electricity, which was the case for most American families.

Detailed explanation-4: -Large kitchen appliances popular in the 1950s included refrigerators and electric ranges and ovens. While freon-cooled refrigerators had been introduced in the 1920s, the refrigerators of the 1950s gained the first ice makers and automatic defrosters.