The washing machine

The washing machine (laundry machine or clothes washer, washer also known as a wash) is a domestic appliance that is used to wash clothes. The term is typically used to describe machines that make use of water instead of dry cleaning (which utilizes different cleaning fluids, and is carried out by specialist companies) as well as ultrasonic cleaning machines. The customer adds laundry detergent, that is available in powder or liquid form and is added to the wash water.

Irreler Bauerntradition reveals an early Miele washing machine located at the Roscheider Hof Open Air Museum.

Laundering at home involves beating, soaking scraping, and rinsing off dirty clothes. Prior to indoor plumbing, people were also required to carry the water required to wash, boil and then rinsing laundry from a pump well or spring. The laundry water would be carried by hand, then heated over a fire to wash the clothes, and then it was poured in the bathtub. This made the soapy warm water valuable; it could be used again, initially to wash clean clothes, and then for washing the more soiled clothes.

The removal of the soap as well as water off clothes after washing was a separate step. In the beginning, soap was eliminated with clean water. After washing, the wet clothes would be rolled into a ball and then bent by hand to squeeze out water. The entire process usually took the entire day of labor, along with dry and ironing.

About five billion of the seven billion people as of the year 2010 continue to hand wash their clothes.

An earliest example of washing machines Arabic: غسالة was the process of fulling. In a fulling machine, cloth was beaten using wooden hammers. They are also known in fulling stocks, or Hammers.

First English patent in the field for washing machine was granted in 1691. The drawing of a first washing machine was featured in the issue of January 1752 of The Gentleman's Magazine, a British publication. Jacob Christian Schaffer's drawing of a washing machine appeared in the year 1767, in Germany. In 1782 Henry Sidgier issued a British patent for a drum washer that rotated in 1790. During the 1790s, Edward Beetham sold numerous "patent washing mills" in England. 4] A major one of the first advances in the washing machine's technological advancement was to use sealed basins or containers that had grooves, fingers or paddles that helped with the rubbing and scrubbing of the clothes. The person who was using the washing machine used a stick to move the clothes on the sides that were textured of the container or basin while agitating the clothing to eliminate debris and dirt. The technology of agitators was powered by hand however, it was still more efficient than hand-washing clothes.