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Ah, soap.  Before my time as they say.  Still, if the issue was copying the exact Bendix sequence I can think of several ways around that without adding cost or complexity.  Of course, I can't <span style="text-decoration: underline;">prove</span> they would work with Ivory Snow.  For that...

<blockquote> WH had to pay a huge amount of money to Bendix to be able to use the assured rinse </blockquote> That's what I mean about patent office broadbrushing.  Royalties for a timer function is like royalties to the sun for using minutes or royalties to clouds for using water.  Turning on...

3 cents back then was a BIG mouthful of bubblegum.   I tell a lie, across-street neighbor had an Economat.  Roundabout 1955.  Not that fun to watch those.   First dishwasher I saw was a Youngstown tower, forgot where.  First we owned, 53 Hotpoint.

Always noticed people's washers, can't recall ever seeing Bendix in person outside a laundrymat.

Patent office can at times be WAAAY too generous.  I mean, patenting springs?  Something very similar cursed the automobile industry for years, a patent so broad as to encompass any version of powered wagon.  It took a concerted effort to have that patent annulled.   How did Westinghouse get...

Top loading washer-dryer?

craigs All those craigs links display 90* CW.   I hope it isn't catching, scarcely had a problem before.

my pictures posting sideways Where?  I don't see any sideways pictures.  Browser is FF48, last  version that works with XP.

Speaking of easy to calculate around, 1/299,792,458 of a second?   Still more convenient than π.  Dam Egyptians.   Which brings us back to 50Hz, a base-10 number vs 60, a base-12 number, more readily divisible.  Was it like NTSC/PAL, where the euros didn't want to pay US royalties?  Can you...

Not like I'm any expert but that would be TOL.  2 speed, 2 faucet, needlespray spinner.  With [gasp] ALL THE KNOBS!   Playing the lottery this week?

Clocks and calendars aren't metric and nobody has a problem with those.  Do they?   50 is easier to calculate than 60?  I don't get it.  Not that I'm any math whiz.

What a prize.  Sunbeam in those days was the real stuff.

Anybody know the story on 50Hz euro standard?  It's like they were trying to get another thousand hours out of generator bearings at the expense of every service transformer being 20% larger.

I'd recognize that, had HP electric sink in 1953.   Never had it apart though (I was barely 8yo at the time).  I use a light film of silicone grease on faucet o-rings to make them move smoothly.  But again, don't know the internals of the Moen or even how it comes apart.   I know you can't...

The linkage was really stiff I wasn't there when it happened but I think that's why the buttons break.

The good news being, that lint filter fits F'daire, W'house, Gibson.......

like in The Day of the Treffids Yep.  And those ones in Star Trek were also guest stars in another show.  I want to say Lost in Space but I get a sinking feeling that's wrong.  Very long time since I saw their other appearance.  Could have been a feature rather than TV.

I'm one of those who always wants to know 'why'.  Here's a 'why' we've all experienced in home technology, though long since retired.  Why Beta/VHS looks pretty OK until you try to copy it, then it looks like a half cup of brown poopoo got stirred in.   All small format video records luminance...

The seeds have some remarkable nutrients.  The plant itself is kinda prehistoric.  Looks like it could attack you.  Reminiscent of those ones in Star Trek that shot spores and made you a zombie.     Farming is so hard, wonder is anyone does it.  Huge investment in endless gruelling work and a...

Watch yourself around sunflower seeds.  If there's enough of them, they can kill you.   This lady fell in a vat of them and sank to the bottom like they were quicksand.  By the time she was rescued, she could not be revived...