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Les Femmes Qui ont Conçu la Machine à Laver

The Women Who Engineered the Washing Machine

Bien avant l'existence des machines à laver électriques, des générations de blanchisseuses concevaient déjà des solutions aux problèmes les plus difficiles de la lessive, des essoreuses écrasantes à l'agitation inefficace. Les brevets d'Ellen Eglui et de Margaret Colvin ont formalisé des connaissances testées dans les buanderies pendant un siècle.

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women inventors
domestic engineering
washing machine history
embodied knowledge
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