The Secret Life of the Home

 

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Wooden electrically-driven domestic washing machine, c 1920.

Wooden domestic washing machine, electrically driven, with mangle, made by Beatty Bros. of Canada, c. 1920

 
Seeger dry-air siphon refrigerator c 1900.

Insulated wooden ice box (dry air siphon refrigerator), in which food is chilled by the insertion of ice blocks into an adjoining compartment from which cold air circulates, by the Seeger Refrigerator Co., St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, 1880-1920

 
Amana Radarange Touchmatic microwave oven, 1978.

Amana Touchmatic Radarange Microwave Oven, model RR5-6, manufactured by Amana Refrigeration Inc., Amana, Iowa, USA, 1978, with micro-go-round plus clockwork pressure activated turntable by Nordic Ware, Mineapolis, Minnesota, USA, 1978

 
Goblin 'Teasmade', c 1945.

Goblin 'Teasmade' model D26, 200-250V, pat. no. 571849, serial no. 26786, by the British Vacuum Cleaner & Engineering Company Ltd., c. 1945

 
Morphy Richards electric toaster, c 1980.

Morphy Richards Electric Toaster model 44560/2, 240V; 950W, with angled ejection, c. 1980

 
'Atomic' espresso coffee maker, c 1950.

Atomic' espresso coffee maker, by A. & M.G. Sassoon, London, England. Brit. Pat. 633988/47, c. 1950.

 
Sunbeam 'Mixmaster' food mixer, c 1953.

Sunbeam 'Mixmaster' food mixer, by Sunbeam Corporation, Chicago, c.1953.

 
Gas cooker, c 1850.

Gas cooker designed by James Sharp (a pioneer of domestic gas cooking technology) and manufactured by W. M. Lankester and Son of Southampton, sheet iron construction, top box missing, 1845-1855

 
'Monitor Top', electric compression domestic refrigerator, 1934.

"Monitor Top" electric compression domestic refrigerator, with compressor mounted in circular unit on top of fridge, by B.T.H. (General Electric), supplied by the International Refrigerator Co. of London, made in the USA, 1934

 
Willcox and Gibbs chain-stitch sewing machine, c 1890.

Wilcox and Gibbs chain stitch sewing machine, a design based on patents Wilcox & Gibbs obtained up to 1883, complete with wooden box. This particular machine was made using the principles of the 'American system' of manufacture by its contracted make