You wash it you wash it you wash it. You rinse you rinse you rinse.
In 1936 (…) a Wisconsin manufacturer was puzzling over an easier and quicker way to dry clothes. The idea was a crude, heated box with a rotary drum that could spin clothes dry. Brooks Stevens, a rising industrial designer before the world knew it needed one, told the manufacturer there was just one glaring problem.
“You can’t sell this thing,” Mr. Stevens said. “This is a sheet metal box. People won’t even know what it is. Who’s going to pay $375 for what looks like a storage cabinet? Put a glass window on the door, get some boxer shorts flying around in there, put it in the stores and it’ll take off.”
“That,” Mr. Stevens said, “was the beginning of the clothes dryer.”
Brooks Stevens also designed the first commercially successful steam iron and the first automatic wringers for washing machines. He was the first to design refrigerators with colors other than white.
{ NY Times | Milwaukee Sentinel }
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