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Thread Number: 70356
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
I fixed Wikipedia's article on Combo Units |
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| Post# 932665 4/16/2017 at 01:26 (2,565 days old) by speedqueen (Metro-Detroit) | ||
It previously said:
"Shortly after the very first completely automatic clothes washer was developed by General Electric in 1947, the same company also invented the first washer dryer combination unit in 1954.[1]" Their source of Washing-machine-wizard.com states as such, but anyone here knows that both statements are false. I changed it to say: "Shortly after the very first completely automatic clothes washer was developed by Bendix Home Appliances in 1937[1], the same company also invented the first washer dryer combination unit in 1953[2]." I cited two things on Google Books, whether this is allowed I don't know, but I just could not let that false statement stay. CLICK HERE TO GO TO speedqueen's LINK | ||
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| Post# 932673 , Reply# 1 4/16/2017 at 02:41 (2,565 days old) by speedqueen (Metro-Detroit) | ||
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Another minor correction | ||
Post# 932686 , Reply# 2 4/16/2017 at 06:05 (2,565 days old) by foraloysius  (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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That page is incomplete, it misses the H-axis topload washer/dryer combo's. Here are a few examples.
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Post# 932696 , Reply# 3 4/16/2017 at 08:10 (2,565 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Thank you for the correction. Actually Bendix was owned by AVCO, Aviation Corporation, which bought Bendix to have access to Bendix radio technology and the patents belonged to AVCO. | ||
| Post# 932704 , Reply# 4 4/16/2017 at 10:29 (2,565 days old) by speedqueen (Metro-Detroit) | ||
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Thanks Tom
I will add that now!
The new Quote: "Bendix Home Appliances, a subsidiary of Avco, an otherwise unrelated company, who licensed the name from Bendix Corporation, introduced the first domestic automatic washing machine in 1937,[22]" [sarcasm]Now I just cannot wait for one of the Wikipedia busybodies to reverse my edits and contest them[/sarcams] | ||
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Post# 932727 , Reply# 5 4/16/2017 at 11:52 (2,565 days old) by henene4 (Heidenheim a.d. Brenz (Germany)) |
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It's kind of upsetting that those TL combos mostly vanished... | ||
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