Gas Hair Dryers
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Allright,here's a description of the various types of commercial gas hair dryers once available.
"There are many styles of hairdryers. One of the most expensive is that in which the electric fan and heater are arranged in a cabinet. With this the current created by the fan is heated by the flame of gas and tempered to suit the customer. Another style is the one in which the gas heater is inclosed in a sheet iron oven or tube place in front of an electric fan in such a manner as to blow the hot air through the hair. Another style is the heater using gas only without the electric fan, but this is not considered as satisfactory, from the fact that hair should always be fanned or rubbed while being dried."
(Sounds an awful like our gas clothes dryers today,doesn't it?)
By the mid-thirties, gas heated dryers found their way into the salons but it dried the hair too harshly and the fumes left something to be desired. The patron and the technician alike complained about ill-effects of the carbon monoxide that the dryers were emitting and they were inhaling.(I wonder how many ladies had their hair catch fire???)
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"There are many styles of hairdryers. One of the most expensive is that in which the electric fan and heater are arranged in a cabinet. With this the current created by the fan is heated by the flame of gas and tempered to suit the customer. Another style is the one in which the gas heater is inclosed in a sheet iron oven or tube place in front of an electric fan in such a manner as to blow the hot air through the hair. Another style is the heater using gas only without the electric fan, but this is not considered as satisfactory, from the fact that hair should always be fanned or rubbed while being dried."
(Sounds an awful like our gas clothes dryers today,doesn't it?)
By the mid-thirties, gas heated dryers found their way into the salons but it dried the hair too harshly and the fumes left something to be desired. The patron and the technician alike complained about ill-effects of the carbon monoxide that the dryers were emitting and they were inhaling.(I wonder how many ladies had their hair catch fire???)
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Halliwell Shelton Electric Gas Hair Dryer
Description :
If you've thought that you've seen every kind of hairdryer imaginable, then we'll ask if you've ever come across one like this:
Commercial Halliwell Shelton 1923 Electric & Gas Hair Dryer. This one just came out of an estate in Philadelphia, was patented April 7, 1907, September 8, 1908, and on May 8, 1923. It is Type G45 manufactured by the Halliwell Shelton Electric Corporation of New York, Chicago, and London. It features a GE 1/12 H.P. motor which powers the fan, and is heated by two separately controlled gas burners. It has an "aero-dynamic helmet" which swivels 360 degrees for easy fitting over one's head, and has one push/pull lever for the control of air flow. It also features a three speed electric switch which needs a knob. Though it will need rewiring, we tested it and it runs well. This is magnificent looking antique hair dryer which is museum quality. It will make a wonderful showpiece and historical artifact. The base is 26" in diameter x 34," the helmet, motor, and gas mechanism is 12"x21"x33," and it weighs 60 pounds.
Description :
If you've thought that you've seen every kind of hairdryer imaginable, then we'll ask if you've ever come across one like this:
Commercial Halliwell Shelton 1923 Electric & Gas Hair Dryer. This one just came out of an estate in Philadelphia, was patented April 7, 1907, September 8, 1908, and on May 8, 1923. It is Type G45 manufactured by the Halliwell Shelton Electric Corporation of New York, Chicago, and London. It features a GE 1/12 H.P. motor which powers the fan, and is heated by two separately controlled gas burners. It has an "aero-dynamic helmet" which swivels 360 degrees for easy fitting over one's head, and has one push/pull lever for the control of air flow. It also features a three speed electric switch which needs a knob. Though it will need rewiring, we tested it and it runs well. This is magnificent looking antique hair dryer which is museum quality. It will make a wonderful showpiece and historical artifact. The base is 26" in diameter x 34," the helmet, motor, and gas mechanism is 12"x21"x33," and it weighs 60 pounds.
danemodsandy
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Hair Dryer
Somebody at Norge sure meant well, and the hair dryer feature looks like it was well-designed. But I have to say that it looks like somebody forgot that most washers and dryers are in basements and the like, not beautifully appointed, colour-coordinated laundry rooms. I can hear one of the older ladies I grew up around snorting now: "And what do I do with THAT? Sit there in the cellar and look at mah shelves uh canned termaters while mah hair dries?" And, I promise you, they'd have passed on such frippery, while congratulating themselves for having outsmarted somebody trying to sell them something they didn't need.
Those ladies were a tough bunch, not to be messed with by Madison Avenue, LOL.
Somebody at Norge sure meant well, and the hair dryer feature looks like it was well-designed. But I have to say that it looks like somebody forgot that most washers and dryers are in basements and the like, not beautifully appointed, colour-coordinated laundry rooms. I can hear one of the older ladies I grew up around snorting now: "And what do I do with THAT? Sit there in the cellar and look at mah shelves uh canned termaters while mah hair dries?" And, I promise you, they'd have passed on such frippery, while congratulating themselves for having outsmarted somebody trying to sell them something they didn't need.
Those ladies were a tough bunch, not to be messed with by Madison Avenue, LOL.
This one is in a private collection somewhere in Europe.
It's also the most modern(and scariest).
Look how close the burner is to the hair!Inches away!
Note the pilot light supply tubing.
Loks like someone crossed a gas clothes dryer with a commercial hair dryer.
It's also the most modern(and scariest).
Look how close the burner is to the hair!Inches away!
Note the pilot light supply tubing.
Loks like someone crossed a gas clothes dryer with a commercial hair dryer.
New hand-held model
Here's a patent for one that I believe has just been marketed.
It uses those butane cartridges similar to lighters,the fan powered by two 1.5 VOLT "C" or "D" cells and is probably related to the gas hair styler by Braun.(Wonder if they got this patent?)
Here's a patent for one that I believe has just been marketed.
It uses those butane cartridges similar to lighters,the fan powered by two 1.5 VOLT "C" or "D" cells and is probably related to the gas hair styler by Braun.(Wonder if they got this patent?)
brettsomers
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Toggleswitch says gas flames are best for hair and beauty care.
I can see recipes for CO poisoning here.And with the high cost of natural gas in my area-the electric hair dryers make more sense.And recipes for "hair fires" as well.Scary!
toggleswitch
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Toggleswitch says gas flames are best for hair and beauty ca
oh darlings if you are going to put anything in my mouth WORDS would be my LAST choice.
SEE now information like this is PRICELESS and fascinating.
(I) THANK YOU dear poster for taking the time to do so.
(It makes all the public beatings and the BS worth it!)
Someone in Massachusetts has the pictured vac. Perhaps he would like to tell us about it as well!
*LOL* Gas oven and vacuum cleaner?
Hugely resourceful but O M G !
oh darlings if you are going to put anything in my mouth WORDS would be my LAST choice.
SEE now information like this is PRICELESS and fascinating.
(I) THANK YOU dear poster for taking the time to do so.
(It makes all the public beatings and the BS worth it!)
Someone in Massachusetts has the pictured vac. Perhaps he would like to tell us about it as well!
*LOL* Gas oven and vacuum cleaner?
Hugely resourceful but O M G !
They had 220V heated rollers here in those days
There were some rather terrifying appliances invented for use in salons in the 20s/30s.
E.g. my grandmother told me about plug-in perm machines
Worked on 220V 50Hz power supplies and you were protected by a very high tech fuse.
This is photo is from the US, but they were the same design and equally leathal.
There were some rather terrifying appliances invented for use in salons in the 20s/30s.
E.g. my grandmother told me about plug-in perm machines
Worked on 220V 50Hz power supplies and you were protected by a very high tech fuse.
This is photo is from the US, but they were the same design and equally leathal.
About the hair dryer attachment for the Norge - I know that in our neighborhood there were several women who were "kitchen beauticians" but actually had the beauty salon equipment guess where - in the basement. A Norge hair dryer attachment would have fit right in. In my sister's neighborhood there is a house that has a "beauty shop" in the basement. This was before the 70's, the age of - Salons! and Hairstylists!
Hair drying was a natural for Norge . . .
Of course, the big difference between the old Norge/Wards dryers and everybody else is that Norge used the blower to blow hot air into the dryer, while others used the blower to suck the hot air out. That's why Norges were "flockers", blowing bits of lint out of the pressurized drum chamber if the door seal wasn't perfect. It also meant that they could divert the hot air for other uses, like drying hair, before it went into the drum. Anyone else's dryer would have had to pull the air through the drum first and would have flocked the hair of the lovely housewife under the bonnet!
I rather doubt that hair drying was the reason Norge engineers decided on their system, but I'd have to give full points to the marketing department for making it an added feature . . . I'm surprised they didn't figure out an accessory attachment to send a stream of hot air to the hands to dry nail polish at the same time!
Of course, the big difference between the old Norge/Wards dryers and everybody else is that Norge used the blower to blow hot air into the dryer, while others used the blower to suck the hot air out. That's why Norges were "flockers", blowing bits of lint out of the pressurized drum chamber if the door seal wasn't perfect. It also meant that they could divert the hot air for other uses, like drying hair, before it went into the drum. Anyone else's dryer would have had to pull the air through the drum first and would have flocked the hair of the lovely housewife under the bonnet!
I rather doubt that hair drying was the reason Norge engineers decided on their system, but I'd have to give full points to the marketing department for making it an added feature . . . I'm surprised they didn't figure out an accessory attachment to send a stream of hot air to the hands to dry nail polish at the same time!
powerfin64
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AHEM... Hairdresser IS in the room now..
back in the day, being the 50's-70's, when weekly shampoo-sets were in there hay day for hairdressers, some women did there own hair, when they couldn't afford or could not get in a visit to the salon. Anyway to make getting a set done was hightly appealing by women, when they had it done only 1x a week. Today, they are still some women that still have a weekly set done at the salon, but hair styles have changed since.
Norge had the right idea and I know was a marketing ploy, to have there appliances more appealing to the consumer, being a multi-functional,IE: drying your hair with clothes dryer.
It may had some women a little concerned with a dryer being Gas to dry there hair, but Im sure there was plenty of safe guards to there design( no company wants a law suit!) The methods used in the 20-40s to dry hair were FAR more hazardious than what Norge had in mind.
Rich
back in the day, being the 50's-70's, when weekly shampoo-sets were in there hay day for hairdressers, some women did there own hair, when they couldn't afford or could not get in a visit to the salon. Anyway to make getting a set done was hightly appealing by women, when they had it done only 1x a week. Today, they are still some women that still have a weekly set done at the salon, but hair styles have changed since.
Norge had the right idea and I know was a marketing ploy, to have there appliances more appealing to the consumer, being a multi-functional,IE: drying your hair with clothes dryer.
It may had some women a little concerned with a dryer being Gas to dry there hair, but Im sure there was plenty of safe guards to there design( no company wants a law suit!) The methods used in the 20-40s to dry hair were FAR more hazardious than what Norge had in mind.
Rich
Shampoo and burn please!
Here's a barber that burns hair instead of cutting it. Must be pretty smelly in that barbershop!
Here's a barber that burns hair instead of cutting it. Must be pretty smelly in that barbershop!
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chitty chitty bang bang
some of those things remind me of the hair cutting machine that went hay wire on the movie chitty chitty bang bang LOL
some of those things remind me of the hair cutting machine that went hay wire on the movie chitty chitty bang bang LOL
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Professor Potts and his hair cutting contraption
ROTFLMAO
When I was young, I would LMAO when Professor Potts would cut that poor guy's hair. After reading the above thread, I now realize his contraption wasn't too far-fetched for the times. To think that women (and men) would "plug" themselves into to a 220V socket to get a perm or dry their hair with a flamed torch! Wouldn't it have been more efficient just put your head in the oven?? (Baste every 10 minuets)
ROTFLMAO
When I was young, I would LMAO when Professor Potts would cut that poor guy's hair. After reading the above thread, I now realize his contraption wasn't too far-fetched for the times. To think that women (and men) would "plug" themselves into to a 220V socket to get a perm or dry their hair with a flamed torch! Wouldn't it have been more efficient just put your head in the oven?? (Baste every 10 minuets)
Now you're (dryin') with gas!
rocketeer, you reminded me...in the 1950s when my sister was a teenager, she really did light the gas oven (probably no more than 200 degrees) and stuck her head inside to dry her hair. (She turned it off when it was warm enough, but now the thought of someone drying her hair in the oven makes me LMFAO!
rocketeer, you reminded me...in the 1950s when my sister was a teenager, she really did light the gas oven (probably no more than 200 degrees) and stuck her head inside to dry her hair. (She turned it off when it was warm enough, but now the thought of someone drying her hair in the oven makes me LMFAO!
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