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Box mangles were large and primarily intended for pressing laundry smooth; they were used by wealthy households, large commercial laundries, and self-employed "mangle women". Middle-class households and independent washerwomen used upright mangles for wringing water out of laundry, and in the later 19th century they were more widely used than ...
Nowadays the word mangle suggests a wringing device for removing water from laundry in some English-speaking countries, but the box mangle was used for pressing and smoothing, and was an alternative to hot ironing for larger items. Flat items, like sheets and tablecloths, usually needed no further ironing.
Woman on an Israeli kibbutz using a washboard to do laundry. A washboard or a scrubbing-board [1] is a tool designed for hand washing clothing. With mechanized cleaning of clothing becoming more common by the end of the 20th century, the washboard has become better known for its secondary use as a musical instrument.
Overhead clothes airers were often installed, from the late eighteenth century onwards, in the laundry room of large houses and estates in Europe. Originally made by the estate handyman, by the middle of the 19th century they almost always benefited from a rope and pulley system to raise and lower the rack, and such systems began to be ...
A washing machine (laundry machine, clothes washer, washer, or simply wash) is a machine designed to launder clothing. The term is mostly applied to machines that use water. Other ways of doing laundry include dry cleaning (which uses alternative cleaning fluids and is performed by specialist businesses) and ultrasonic cleaning.
Before 1951, the City Council was known as the Municipal Commission. [1] The rest of the crown colony was under the authority of the Singapore Rural Board. The city served as the capital of Colony of Singapore, and the State of Singapore from 1951 until its abolishment in 1965. [1] [2]
Using the 6-digit postal code to look up the Central Public Lirbary in the OneMap application. Due to Singapore being a small city-state and most buildings having singular, dedicated delivery point, the postal code can be used as a succinct and precise identifier of buildings in Singapore, akin to a geocode.
Funan DigitaLife Mall, formerly Funan The IT Mall and Funan Centre, was a shopping centre formerly located near the Civic District in Singapore.Completed in 1985, the mall specialised in electronics and IT-related goods.