When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Hills Hoist - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills_Hoist

   A Hills Hoist is a height-adjustable rotary clothes line, designed to permit the compact hanging of wet clothes so that their maximum area can be exposed for wind drying by rotation. They are considered one of Australia's most recognisable icons , and are used frequently by artists as a metaphor for Australian suburbia in the 1950s and 1960s.

3. Clothes line - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes_line

   Longer washing lines often have props holding up the mid-section so the weight of the clothing does not pull the clothesline down to the ground. More elaborate rotary washing lines save space and are typically retractable and square or triangular in shape, with multiple lines being used (such as the Hills Hoist from Australia). Some can be ...

4. Overhead clothes airer - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhead_Clothes_Airer

   However, although the washing of laundry became mechanised and electrified in the twentieth century, even households that can afford electric clothes driers may also use a clothes airer, and its environmentally friendly qualities have led to a resurgence in its popularity, [4] with a number of new manufacturers springing up in recent decades.

5. Bunnings - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunnings

   Bunnings Group Limited, trading as Bunnings Warehouse or Bunnings, is an Australian household hardware and garden centre chain. [2] The chain has been owned by ...

6. Mangle (machine) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangle_(machine)

   Gradually, the electric washing machine's spin cycle rendered this use of a mangle obsolete, and with it the need to wring out water from clothes mechanically. Box mangles were large and primarily intended for pressing laundry smooth; they were used by wealthy households, large commercial laundries, and self-employed "mangle women".

7. Overhead line - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhead_line

   The generic term used by the International Union of Railways for the technology is overhead line. [1] It is known variously as overhead catenary, overhead contact line (OCL), overhead contact system (OCS), overhead equipment (OHE), overhead line equipment (OLE or OHLE), overhead lines (OHL), overhead wiring (OHW), traction wire, and trolley wire.