Purity Washing Powder

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Publication Date: 1960

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Size: A1 1 Sheet (cca. 84 x 59 cm). Purity Washing Powder is a 1965 original Hungarian vintage commercial poster Special cleanliness Suitable for washing wool silk and synthetic textiles In the 1960s a variety of household appliances appeared on the market that contributed to the easier and more efficient housework Machines and related products such as washing powders were widely advertised This poster has a simple cartoon like design with vivid yellow red and blue colours The simplified geometric forms and the bright white of the foam the woman s apron and headscarf all point to the brand name and the product s purpose Purity Laundry detergent or washing powder is a type of detergent cleaning agent used for cleaning laundry Laundry detergent is manufactured in powder and liquid form While powdered and liquid detergents hold roughly equal share of the worldwide laundry detergent market in terms of value powdered detergents are sold twice as much compared to liquids in terms of volume From ancient times chemical additives were used to facilitate the mechanical washing of textile fibres with water The earliest recorded evidence of the production of soap like materials dates back to around 2800 BC in ancient Babylon A washing machine laundry machine clothes washer or washer is a home appliance used to wash laundry The term is mostly applied to machines that use water as opposed to dry cleaning which uses alternative cleaning fluids and is performed by specialist businesses or ultrasonic cleaners The user adds laundry detergent which is sold in liquid or powder form to the wash water Clothes washer technology developed as a way to reduce the manual labor spent providing an open basin or sealed container with paddles or fingers to automatically agitate the clothing The Industrial Revolution completely transformed laundry technology Christina Hardyment in her history from the Great Exhibition of 1851 argues that it was the development of domestic machinery that led to women s liberation The mangle or wringer in American English was developed in the 19th century two long rollers in a frame and a crank to revolve them A laundry worker took sopping wet clothing and cranked it through the mangle compressing the cloth and expelling the excess water The mangle was much quicker than hand twisting It was a variation on the box mangle used primarily for pressing and smoothing cloth Meanwhile 19th century inventors further mechanized the laundry process with various hand operated washing machines to replace tedious hand rubbing against a washboard Most involved turning a handle to move paddles inside a tub Then some early 20th century machines used an electrically powered agitator Many of these washing machines were simply a tub on legs with a hand operated mangle on top Later the mangle too was electrically powered then replaced by a perforated double tub which spun out the excess water in a spin cycle Laundry drying was also mechanized with clothes dryers Dryers were also spinning perforated tubs but they blew heated air rather than water The earliest machines were hand operated and constructed from wood while later machines made of metal permitted a fire to burn below the washtub keeping the water warm throughout the day s washing An early special purpose mechanical washing device was the washboard invented in 1797 by Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire though there were predecessors By the mid 1850s steam driven commercial laundry machinery were on sale in the UK and US Technological advances in machinery for commercial and institutional washers proceeded faster than domestic washer design for several decades especially in the UK In the United States there was more emphasis on developing machines for washing at home though machines for commercial laundry services were widely used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries The rotary washing machine was patented by Hamilton Smith in 1858 As electricity was not commonly available until at leas.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Purity Washing Powder
• Publication Date: 1960
• Binding: Paper, offset lithography.
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