WS205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Elias Howe, Sewing Machine, Isaac Singer
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Fire: stove was innovated, wood fireplace (before stove) Women cooked, men chopped wood, children cleaned: so(cid:373)e households did(cid:374)(cid:859)t like the sto(cid:448)e as they sa(cid:449) the firepla(cid:272)e as a part of the home. Connections to their past: coal stoves meant someone having to pay for the coal, electric stoves changed habits. Less hot in the summer: microwaves. Early appliances were luxury items: would plug into a light bulb, advertising said to not hire help, instead own appliances. Sewing machine: mobs kept burning down the shops owned by the original inventor of the sewing machine, elias howe junior. Invented a machine that had the design stolen. Isaac singer actor and sold thousands of sewing machines. Last major manufacturer to adapt to mass production. Invented because a president was sick in the middle of the summer in. Washing machine: laundry before this was awful, took all day, liberated women from their household chores.
