18. What was the resulting problem of the first electric, rotating tub washing machine, which was introduced in the early 1900s?
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The dripping water onto the motor caused short circuits and electric shocks
"This is the way we wash our clothes..."
From pounding clothing with rocks at the water's edge; to dragging clothes in a bag dropped in the ocean; to the washtubs and scrubbing boards; to the first washing machines that caused short circuits and electrics shocks from unprotected motors; to the first wwooden tubs rather than coppper barrel ones, to the introduction of the agitator and the wringers, the washing machine of the twenty-first century has evolved. It is now the highly functional, sleek, brightly colored, push button, or dial twisted, gentle, regular or super, whites, or permanent press machine. It has low, medium, and full water levels. A separate cavity for bleach, and many with an automatic safety lid that can not be opened while the machine spins keeps us from motor shocks and burns of long ago. No longer is the muscle strength needed that once operated scrubbing boards and hand-wringing water from clothes at the wash tub for optimum laundry results. Doing the Monday wash is now just about a "one finger, push, or twist event".
A special thanks to the Beatty Brothers of Ontario, Canada who were the first to produce an agitator washing machine, and were later followed in the United States by the Maytag Company.
..."so early on Monday morning".
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