 Italian street, with laundry hung to dry Laundry can be: Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 512 pixels Full resolution (1964 × 1256 pixel, file size: 541 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Source: Joshua Sherurcij File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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- items of clothing and other textiles that require washing
- the act of washing clothing and textiles
- the room of a house in which this is done
Clothing protects the vulnerable nude human body from the extremes of weather, other features of our environment, and for safety reasons. ...
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Washing is one way of cleaning, namely with water and often some kind of soap or detergent. ...
Laundry room A laundry room (also called a utility room) is a room where clothes are washed. ...
History of laundry
Before industrialization
 "Man and woman washing linen in a brook", from William Henry Pyne's Microcosm, 1806. Laundry was first done in streams, letting the stream carry away the materials which could cause stains and smells.Laundry may still be done this way in some less industrialized areas and rural regions. Agitation helps remove the dirt, so the laundry is often rubbed, twisted, or slapped against flat rocks. Wooden bats or clubs could be used to help with beating the dirt out. These were often called washing beetles or bats and could be used on a rock by a stream (a beetling-stone), on a block (battling-block), or on a board. They were once common across Europe and were also used by settlers in North America. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
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Freeway along the Ébrié Lagoon near the Plateau, Abidjans business district and centre of the city. ...
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Various chemicals may be used increase the solvent power of water, such as the compounds in soaproot or yucca-root used by Native American tribes. Soap, a compound made from lye (from wood-ash) and fat, is an ancient and very common laundry aid. However, modern washing machines typically use powdered or liquid laundry detergent in place of more traditional soap. Species Chlorogalums angustifolium Chlorogalum grandiflorum Chlorogalum parviflorum Chlorogalum pomeridianum Chlorogalum purpureum The Soap Plants, Soaproots or Amoles are the genus Chlorogalum of flowering plants. ...
A collection of decorative soaps used for human hygiene purposes. ...
Lye is a caustic solution used for glass and soap making. ...
For other uses, see FAT. Fats consist of a wide group of compounds that are generally soluble in organic solvents and largely insoluble in water. ...
Front-loading washing machine. ...
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When no streams were available, laundry was done in water-tight vats or vessels. Sometimes large metal cauldrons were filled with fresh water and heated over a fire; boiling water was even more effective than cold in removing dirt. The washboard, a corrugated slab of a hard material such as metal, replaced rocks as a surface for loosening soil. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Once clean, the clothes were wrung out — twisted to remove most of the water. Then they were hung up on poles or clotheslines to air dry, or sometimes just spread out on clean grass.
The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution completely transformed laundry technology. A Watt steam engine, the steam engine that propelled the Industrial Revolution in Britain and the world. ...
The mangle (wringer US) was developed in the 18th century — two long rollers in a frame and a crank to revolve them. A laundry-worker took sopping wet clothing and cranked it through the mangle, compressing the cloth and expelling the excess water. The mangle was much quicker than hand twisting. It was a variation on the box mangle used primarily for pressing and smoothing cloth. A Norahammars Bruk model 3005-2 mangle from 1934 A mangle is a mechanical laundry aid consisting of two rollers in a sturdy frame, connected by cogs and, in its home version, powered by a hand crank or electrically. ...
A mangle is a mechanical laundry aid consisting of two rollers in a sturdy frame, connected by cogs and, in its home version, powered by a hand crank. ...
The box mangle is said to have been invented in the 17th century. ...
Meanwhile 18th century inventors further mechanized the laundry process with various hand-operated washing machines. Most involved turning a handle to move paddles inside a tub. Then some early 20th century machines used an electrically powered agitator to replace tedious hand rubbing against a washboard. Many of these were simply a tub on legs, with a hand-operated mangle on top. Later the mangle too was electrically powered, then replaced by a perforated double tub, which spun out the excess water in a spin cycle. Front-loading washing machine. ...
An agitator is a mechanism to put something into motion by shaking or stirring. ...
A mangle is a mechanical laundry aid consisting of two rollers in a sturdy frame, connected by cogs and, in its home version, powered by a hand crank. ...
Laundry drying was also mechanized, with clothes dryers. Dryers were also spinning perforated tubs, but they blew heated air rather than water. An electric clothes dryer A clothes dryer or tumble dryer is a household appliance that is used to remove the residual moisture from a load of clothing and other textiles, generally shortly after they are cleaned in a washing machine. ...
Chinese laundries in North America - See also: Yick Wo v. Hopkins
In the United States and Canada in the late 19th and early 20th century, the occupation of laundry worker was heavily identified with Chinese Americans. Discrimination, lack of English-language skills, and lack of capital kept Chinese Americans out of most desirable careers. Around 1900, one in four ethnic Chinese men in the U.S. worked in a laundry, typically working 10 to 16 hours a day.[1][2] Holding Racially discriminatory application of a facially neutral statute violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. ...
A Chinese American is an American who is of ethnic Chinese descent. ...
Capital has a number of related meanings in economics, finance and accounting. ...
New York City had an estimated 3,550 Chinese laundries at the beginning of the Great Depression of the 1930s. In 1933, with even this looking to many people like a relatively desirable business, the city's Board of Aldermen passed a law clearly intended to drive the Chinese out of the business. Among other things, it limited ownership of laundries to U.S. citizens. The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association tried fruitlessly to fend this off, resulting in the formation of the openly leftist Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance (CHLA), which successfully challenged this provision of the law, allowing Chinese laundry workers to preserve their livelihoods.[1] New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...
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The Chinese Six Companies (Chinese:å…大公å¸) or Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Chinese:ä¸è¯å…¬æ‰€) or Chong Wa Benevolent Association (Chinese:ä¸è¯æœƒé¤¨) is a historical Chinese Association established in various parts of the United States with large populations of Chinese. ...
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The CHLA went on to function as a more general civil rights group; its numbers declined strongly after it was targeted by the FBI during the Second Red Scare (1947–1957).[1] Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a federal criminal investigative, intelligence agency, and the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ...
Political cartoon of 1919 depicting a European anarchist attempting to destroy the Statue of Liberty. ...
Modern laundry Washing machines and dryers are now fixtures in homes around the world. In some parts of the world, such as the USA, Canada, and Switzerland, apartment buildings and dormitories often have laundry rooms, where residents share washing machines and dryers. Usually the machines are set to run only when coins in appropriate amounts are inserted in a coin slot. Those without home machines or access to laundry rooms must either wash their clothes by hand or visit a commercial laundromat. A red brick apartment block in central London, England, on the north bank of the Thames An apartment building, block of flats or tenement is a multi-unit dwelling made up of several (generally four or more) apartments (US) or flats (UK). ...
A typical American college dorm room Another typical not-so-clean college dorm room Watterson Towers, Illinois State University Potomac Hall, second-largest dormitory at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. ...
A coin acceptor is a device that recognises coins. ...
A laundromat in California powered by solar panels on the roof. ...
In parts of Europe, such as the UK, apartment buildings with laundry rooms are uncommon, and each apartment has its own washing machine.
Right to Dry Thousands of communities restrict or prohibit residents from using a clothesline. In Florida, "No deed restrictions, covenants, or similar binding agreements running with the land shall prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting solar collectors, clotheslines, or other energy devices based on renewable resources from being installed on buildings erected on the lots or parcels covered by the deed restrictions, covenants, or binding agreements". No other state has so strong a law. Vermont considered a "Right to Dry" bill in 1999, but it was defeated in the Senate Natural Resources & Energy Committee. The language has been included in a 2007 voluntary energy conservation bill, introduced by Senator Dick McCormack (AN ACT RELATING TO VOLUNTARY ENERGY CONSERVATION MEASURES). Similar measures are been introduced in some parts of Ontario as well.
See also Laundry symbols, also called care symbols, are pictograms which represent different methods of washing, drying, dry-cleaning and ironing clothing. ...
Front-loading washing machine. ...
A tunnel washer, also called a continuous batch washer, is a computerized industrial laundry machine designed specifically to handle heavy loads. ...
An electric clothes dryer A clothes dryer or tumble dryer is a household appliance that is used to remove the residual moisture from a load of clothing and other textiles, generally shortly after they are cleaned in a washing machine. ...
An iron Ironing or smoothing is the work of using a heated tool to remove wrinkles from washed clothes. ...
Chore redirects here. ...
A laundromat in California powered by solar panels on the roof. ...
Notes - ^ a b c "Declaration of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance", p.183–185 (including notes), Judy Yung, Gordon H. Chang, and Him Mark Lai (compilers and editors), Chinese American Voices, University of California Press (2006). ISBN 0520243102.
- ^ This topic is also treated at length in Ban Seng Hoe, Enduring Hardship: The Chinese Laundry in Canada, Canadian Museum of Civilization (2004). ISBN 0660190788.
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