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Inventor: Elias Howe Jr.
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In 1850, Joel Houghton patented a wooden machine with a hand-turned wheel that splashed water on dishes, it was hardly a workable machine, but it was the first patent.
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Inventor: Alexander Graham Bell
Sent sound waves of speech through electric wires -
Inventor: Humphry Davy
The very first inventor of the light bulb, whom recieves little to no credit next to Thomas Edison -
Inventor: Reginald Aubrey Fessender
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British civil engineer H. Cecil Booth patents a vacuum cleaner powered by an engine and mounted on a horse-drawn cart. Teams of operators would reel the hoses into buildings to be cleaned.
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Earl Richardson of Ontario, California, introduces the lightweight electric iron. After complaints from customers that it overheated in the center, Richardson makes an iron with more heat in the point, useful for pressing around buttonholes and ruffles. Soon his customers are clamoring for the "iron with the hot point"—and in 1905 Richardson’s trademark iron is born.
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The Hurley Machine Company invented the very first electric powered washing machine although washing boards and hand powered machines were invented and used before.
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Inventor: Marcel Audiffen
Before refrigerators people wrapped ice and animal furs around their food to preserve them.
