Improvements in modern kitchens throughout the centuries pay homage to the innovation and hard work undertaken by many people, especially inventors and other innovators in the'th and 20th centuries, to streamline work and improve equipment of all types. This is especially so when it comes to kitchen appliances. In fact, kitchens today owe much to the work taken to improve these appliances.
As with many other improvements in our daily lives, the advent of the Industrial Revolution -- the era when more and more manufacturing processes came to be fully mechanized and industrialized -- saw the direct improvement in home technologies such as refrigerators and stoves. In fact, by the late'th century, the design of the modern kitchen was pretty much assured for even the lower classes.
As always with anything created for the upper classes -- which stoves, refrigerators and other kitchen items certainly were -- the technologies, as they became more common, became less expensive to own which also meant they could be purchased by more people in more socioeconomic classes. Stoves, refrigerators and other kitchen items meant that a separate room could be created for a kitchen in any home.
Concurrently with the work done to improve home technologies, efforts undertaken to bring plumbing (meaning running water) to the typical home along with natural gas and electricity meant that many cities in the late'th century began to see improvements in stoves and refrigerators and the way they were manufactured. Stoves that could be heated via natural gas soon replaced coal-fired stoves.
Even though these improvements were bringing many more possibilities in kitchen design to the masses in larger cities, it was the case that, right up through the first third of the 20th century, many homes in rural areas still were without indoor plumbing and electricity. That meant that today's modern kitchen was still far off in the distance for many people back then.
Along with improvements in the manufacture of home technologies, improvements developed as a result of the streamlining of work contributed greatly to kitchen design. Industrial engineers of the'th and 20th centuries design kitchens to be more efficient so that the women cooking in them could return back to the factory floor much quicker and therefore devote more time to work.
These efforts -- which were treated with no small amount of scorn by many women of the day, at least initially -- played a great role in the improvement in kitchen design layouts and the equipment such as refrigerators and stoves that goes into those designs. Modernized kitchens made food preparation easier and led to more attractive kitchens starting in the mid-20th century.
Nowadays, modern kitchens usually bear little resemblance to kitchens from even 50 years ago at least in terms of the efficiency and modernity of the appliances in the design of the room in which these appliances reside. Utilization of space is more efficient and effective than ever before, though we tend not to give the kitchen more than a passing thought no matter how vital it really is in our lives. - 32406
As with many other improvements in our daily lives, the advent of the Industrial Revolution -- the era when more and more manufacturing processes came to be fully mechanized and industrialized -- saw the direct improvement in home technologies such as refrigerators and stoves. In fact, by the late'th century, the design of the modern kitchen was pretty much assured for even the lower classes.
As always with anything created for the upper classes -- which stoves, refrigerators and other kitchen items certainly were -- the technologies, as they became more common, became less expensive to own which also meant they could be purchased by more people in more socioeconomic classes. Stoves, refrigerators and other kitchen items meant that a separate room could be created for a kitchen in any home.
Concurrently with the work done to improve home technologies, efforts undertaken to bring plumbing (meaning running water) to the typical home along with natural gas and electricity meant that many cities in the late'th century began to see improvements in stoves and refrigerators and the way they were manufactured. Stoves that could be heated via natural gas soon replaced coal-fired stoves.
Even though these improvements were bringing many more possibilities in kitchen design to the masses in larger cities, it was the case that, right up through the first third of the 20th century, many homes in rural areas still were without indoor plumbing and electricity. That meant that today's modern kitchen was still far off in the distance for many people back then.
Along with improvements in the manufacture of home technologies, improvements developed as a result of the streamlining of work contributed greatly to kitchen design. Industrial engineers of the'th and 20th centuries design kitchens to be more efficient so that the women cooking in them could return back to the factory floor much quicker and therefore devote more time to work.
These efforts -- which were treated with no small amount of scorn by many women of the day, at least initially -- played a great role in the improvement in kitchen design layouts and the equipment such as refrigerators and stoves that goes into those designs. Modernized kitchens made food preparation easier and led to more attractive kitchens starting in the mid-20th century.
Nowadays, modern kitchens usually bear little resemblance to kitchens from even 50 years ago at least in terms of the efficiency and modernity of the appliances in the design of the room in which these appliances reside. Utilization of space is more efficient and effective than ever before, though we tend not to give the kitchen more than a passing thought no matter how vital it really is in our lives. - 32406
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