Sampson, George T.
c.1861-c.1940 · Contribution: 1892
Automatic clothes dryer using stove-heated frame design; sled propeller
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Impact on the world
His clothes dryer design replaced the open-flame 'ventilator' style dryers common in his era with a safer stove-heated frame system, an important early step toward the modern clothes dryer.
Life & background
An inventor from Dayton, Ohio, Sampson patented an early automatic clothes dryer in 1892 that suspended clothing above a stove for faster, safer drying than the open-flame barrel-style dryers common at the time. He had earlier gained public attention in 1885 for inventing a pedal-powered sled propeller.
Sources
- KOLUMN Magazine; Circa1926; SamePassage
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