How Laundry Moved Into the Home

Laundry moved from shared water sources and commercial services into increasingly mechanized domestic spaces. Explore how plumbing, appliances, labor and housing design changed the weekly wash. Inside this episode: - Washday as infrastructure - The washboard and wringer - Soap, detergent, and water - Piped water changes the first step - Electric motion Sources include Smithsonian, Doing the Museum's Dirty Laundry, Eindhoven University of Technology, laundry technology history, and Smithsonian, Home as Workplace. This episode is a researched narrative summary. Historical records may be incomplete, translated differently, or interpreted differently by scholars. We distinguish documented facts, estimates, disputed interpretations, and later stories where material. Corrections are logged and incorporated into future editions. Follow The Home Through Time for more researched stories about the changing design of everyday homes.