Who invented the washing machine and dryer?

Answer 1

The first British patent for a washing machine was issued in 1691. Not much is known about this machine or the creator. In Germany, Jacob Christian Schäffer published a design for a washing machine in 1767. In 1782 Henry Sidgier was issued a British patent for a rotating drum washer. Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire received the first United States issued patent for a washing machine in 1797. There is very little known of this machine because a fire destroyed the records of it. In 1799 a Frenchman by the name of Pochon invented the first hand cranked dryer. In 1843 John E. Turnbull of Saint John, New Brunswick patented the first wringer washer. He called it the "Clothes Washer with Wringer Rolls”. In 1851 James King patented the first washing machine that used a drum. In 1871 Margaret Plunkett Coleman introduced her patented Triumph machine at the Philadelphia Centennial. In 1892 George T. Sampson received a patent on an automatic dryer. It was nothing more than a modified rack that held wet clothing near a heat source. It used heat from the stove to dry clothes in an attached barrel. Near 1900 Louis Goldenberg a Ford Motor Company worker from New Jersey invented the electric washing machine. Since he worked for Ford at the time they owned the patent. In 1915 the electric tumbler clothes dryer was introduced. It is not clear who exactly holds the patent to the first electric dryer. http://cleaning.lovetoknow.com/Who_Invented_the_Washing_Machine_and_Dryer