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2. SolaWash - Wikipedia

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   SolaWash is an automated and mobile hand washing machine powered by solar panels. It was invented by Richard Kwarteng and his team in Kumasi, Ghana.The Solar Wash machine was invited to fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic by not touching the tap before and after washing hands.

3. Mangle (machine) - Wikipedia

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   Gradually, the electric washing machine's spin cycle rendered this use of a mangle obsolete, and with it the need to wring out water from clothes mechanically. 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".

4. Jim Kirby - Wikipedia

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   Kirby had purchased the land in 1919 at the age of 35 after making his fortune with the invention of the washing machine spin cycle. He devised and patented a system of filtration dams that would keep silt out of the new lake he created. He situated his house on a hillside overlooking the lake and powered it with an experimental hydroelectric mill.

5. Washing machine - Wikipedia

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   [citation needed] These machines, as well as other older designs like the manual rotating drum, are still available, but are typically only used in circumstances where a standard water and power hookup for a washing machine is unavailable. Many are marketed for camping due to their light weight and ability to function without a water connection.

6. Laundry - Wikipedia

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   Meanwhile, 19th-century inventors further mechanized the laundry process with various hand-operated washing machines to replace tedious hand rubbing against a washboard. Most involved turning a handle to move paddles inside a tub. Then some early-20th-century machines used an electrically powered agitator. Many of these washing machines were ...

7. 3-year-old boy dies after being put in washing machine 'as ...

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   A father killed his 3-year-old son by locking him in a washing machine and letting it run for five minutes. The father was allegedly punishing his son for bad behavior. Christophe Champenois, 37 ...

8. Recreational vehicle terms - Wikipedia

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   Dry camping is made more comfortable by having: A supply of potable water storage within the RV; Enough house-battery power to supply basic camping needs (low voltage lights, water pump, control portion of refrigerator, etc.) A means of recharging the house battery(s), such as solar panels or generators

9. Altorfer Bros. Company - Wikipedia

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   The brothers first created a power clothes washer after watching their sisters and mother hand-washing piles of clothes. It was basically a wooden tub mounted to a bench with wooden "fingers" to wash the clothes, and attached to a gasoline engine. The brothers invented the machine in the basement of their father's hardware store.