November 15, 1988
Before the invention of the vacuum cleaner, carpets and upholstery were taken outside and beaten once a year to get the dust out (...Read more
November 22, 1988
The earliest form of automatic washing was the nautical practice of towing clothes behind the ship. The combination of agitation a...Read more
November 29, 1988
The first patent for a sewing machine was taken out by an English cabinetmaker called Thomas Saint in 1790. It's doubtful whether ...Read more
December 6, 1988
Commercial refrigeration equipment was first developed in Australia, where the winters weren't cold enough to produce much natural...Read more
December 13, 1988
At first Roman houses simply had a fire in the middle of the room (the Latin for hearth is focus). But they probably had trouble w...Read more
December 20, 1988
John Logie Baird, the Scottish inventor, developed an electromechanical TV system in the 1920s and gave frequent public demonstrat...Read more