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G.T. Sampson
The Drier has gone along way since the beginning of time.  Brands today like Maytag and others have changed the way we look at the drier. On this website I will tell u about how the drier started, show you some of the original designs and how it has improved through the years. Mostly I will show you the way that the orginal inventor G.T. Sampson made his first product.
In these years we have more companies then companies.  With new companies like maytag and others have changed the way we looked at the drier over 50 years ago and this website we'll tell you all about how it started and now haow it has advanced.
History of The Washing Machine
People first got dirt out of their clothes by pounding them on rocks and washing the dirt away in streams. Sand was used as an abrasive to free the dirt. Soap was discovered at Rome's Sapo Hill where ashes containing the fat of sacrificial animals was found to have good cleaning powers.
Clothes dryers were first invented in England and France in the early 1800s. One kind of early clothes dryer was the ventilator. The ventilator was a barrel-shaped metal drum with holes in it. It was turned by hand over a fire.
One of the earliest patent for a clothes dryer(U.S. patent #476,416) was received by George T. Sampson on June 7, 1892. Samson also patented a sled propeller (U.S. patent #312,388) on February 17th, 1885.

Electrical clothes dryers appeared around 1915.
The earliest washing "machine" - the scrub board was invented in 1797.

American, James King patented the first washing machine to use a drum in 1851.

In 1858, Hamilton Smith patented the rotary washing machine.

In 1874, William Blackstone of Indiana built a birthday present for his wife. It was a machine which removed and washed away dirt from clothes. The first washing machines designed for use in the home.

The first electric-powered washing machine (the Thor) was introduced in 1908, by the Hurley Machine Company of Chicago, Illinois. Alva J. Fisher was the inventor. The machine was a drum type with a galvanized tub and an electric motor, for which a patent was issued on Aug. 9, 1910 (US patent #966677).  Here is an example of a 1910 model.