Patent Model - Improved Washing-Machine
Maker and role
Hamilton Smith, Patentee
Production date
Apr 13 1869
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Wood, brass
Measurements
10 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 10" (26.7 x 26 x 25.4cm)
Description
Smith's patent "relates to a machine for washing clothes, and consists in a wooden box, hung, or suspended by metal lugs, or pins upon coil springs, in such a manner that the box oscillates, or plays freely from side to side, having its centre of motion at or below the line of its bottom." (Patent Number 88,816)
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Object number
2015.14.994a,b
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