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When was the dryer invented?
In the early 1800s, clothes dryers were first being invented in England
and France. One common kind of early clothes dryer was the ventilator,
the first one known to be built was made by a Frenchman named Pochon.
The ventilator was a barrel-shaped metal drum with holes in it. It was
turned by hand over a fire.
One early American patent for a clothes dryer was granted to George T.
Sampson on June 7, 1892. Sampson's dryer used the heat from a stove to
dry clothes and is an example of a ventilator type machine. View - U.S. patent #476,416
Electrical Clothes Dryers
Electrical clothes dryers appeared around 1915. Modern clothes dryers
include such features as electronic sensors that detect when clothes
are dry.
Inventor J. Ross Moore lived on a North Dakota farm in the early 20th
century. Tired of hanging wet clothes outside in the frigid winters, he
built a shed, installed a stove and hung the clothes there to dry. Over
the next 30 years, Moore developed his idea for an automatic clothes
dryer. He finally built a drum-type model that worked. He developed
both gas and electric models but, due to financial difficulties, needed
to find a manufacturer to produce them. After many rejections, he
struck a deal with Hamilton Manufacturing Company of Two Rivers, Wis.
Hamilton began selling the new automatic clothes dryer, named the "June
Day," in 1938.
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