In Colorado, the 12,000 square foot Lee Maxwell Washing Museum is running out of space. Lee Maxwell, 93, has been collecting washing machines since 1985. In 1992, he opened the Lee Maxwell Washing ...

Home appliances are a relatively recent phenomenon, at least when looking back through history. While modern manufacturing standards inform us of things like the demands and wants of customers, it ...

This photograph of women doing laundry outside was likely taken sometime in the late 1800s or early 1900s. It’s part of Naper Settlement’s collection, provided to the Naperville history museum by the ...

Few people today would consider going to a laundromat a luxury. But before the first laundromat — or "washateria," as it was called back then — was created in the 1930s, that is exactly how the launch ...

How quickly things change. It was only 40 years ago that major household appliances were mass-produced in Western Europe, but there are already few factories left and most have been shut down or ...