A hundred years at lunch, like washing, cleaning and cooking women in the last century

We constantly deal with the ongoing progress, changes and additions in technology — in particular, this new and, of course, the best version of the mobile phones, tablets and other gadgets. However, we never think that those familiar household items, without which we can not imagine our house has been a long and difficult evolution before we get to such an advanced species.

Let's look at the first attempts of man to make your life and cleaning. The first vacuum cleaners, washing machines and toasters looked very different, some even scary.

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One of the first vacuum cleaner, which required two people.

Prototype washing machines.

People ironed their clothes before electricity appeared. In pictures iron, which was filled with coal.

Toaster. Looks like toast cooked on one side.

This TV 1946, became one of the first, got to mass production. Screen size can be compared with a tablet, but not with modern TV.

One of the first mixers made in the 1930-ies.

Daguerreotype camera in 1840-ies.

A stove of the nineteenth century.

The pram was invented in the 1700s, when the Duke of Devonshire asked architect William Kent to build something to be able to carry children.

The first lawnmower in the Missouri Botanical garden, 1918. Lawn mower running on gasoline, and cooled with water.