SAN ANTONIO — Washing machines are not the quietest appliances, but Sue Ann Brooks' machine is so loud you can't stay in the same room with it. What makes that even worse is that it's less than ...

While I’m there, I will be doing the wash with the lady of the house, using a square tub Maytag wringer washer that was built around 1940. Amish home.

The bell on our new washer really intrigued me. Around 1950 we finally got an actual automatic washing machine. You’d plug it in, turn it to “start” and then you could walk away while it ...

While manually feeding clothes through the rollers of her wringer washing machine, her left breast was drawn into the rollers when her blouse became entangled with the clothing she was wringing. The ...

Whirlpool, on the other hand, was founded in 1911 and focused on electric washers. Their electric wringer-washer evolved, and the brand now offers a wide range of appliances, including ...

My mother used Rinso when she washed clothes, and I still remember her as she labored at a wringer washing machine and the Rinso jingle played over the floor model Philco radio in the living room.

A History of the World is a partnership between the BBC and the British Museum that focuses on world history, involving collaborations between teams across the BBC, and schools, museums and ...

THE term, "wringer arm," was first coined in 1938§ to describe an accident occurring in early childhood in which the upper extremity is inadvertently caught between the rollers of a power-driven ...

This metamorphosis or transformation card is an advertisement for the Peerless Wringer washing machine, printed in the 1880s by the Donaldson Brothers based in the Five Points (lower Mulberry Street) ...