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Under your worktop there's an icon quietly sitting there, transforming people's lives.
Without it, you would be still taking a weekly trip down to your local river, or washhouse, to get your clothes clean.
Adding hours of domestic chores to everyone's week.
The washing machine is a silent part of the civilised world (apart from when its on a fast spin), but no one talks about them. They are so integral to our modern lives. We wash our clothes in the 21st century without a second thought, but these clever machines that sit so humbly in our kitchens and utility rooms, have revolutionised our lives over the last 100 years.
Today's design can trace it's roots right back to the 1750s, in fact a lot of the design elements can still be seen in the latest machines.
Host, Ben Diamant; a Creative Innovator and inventor of cons ...
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