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2. Altorfer Bros. Company - Wikipedia

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   The brothers first created a power clothes washer after watching their sisters and mother hand-washing piles of clothes. It was basically a wooden tub mounted to a bench with wooden "fingers" to wash the clothes, and attached to a gasoline engine. The brothers invented the machine in the basement of their father's hardware store.

3. Thor washing machine - Wikipedia

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   1920 advertisement for the Thor electric washing machine. The Thor washing machine was the first electric clothes washer sold commercially in the United States. Produced by the Chicago-based Hurley Electric Laundry Equipment Company, the 1907 Thor is believed to be the first electrically powered washer ever manufactured, crediting Hurley as the inventor of the first automatic washing machine.

4. Speed Queen - Wikipedia

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   Barlow & Seelig washing machine, 1908. The company was founded in 1908 by Joe Barlow and John Seelig as Barlow & Seelig Manufacturing. They got their start by taking existing machine designs and improving them. [citation needed] In 1922, Speed Queen was the first company to introduce washers with nickel-copper tubs. The brand name "Speed Queen ...

5. Beatty Brothers Limited - Wikipedia

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   From the mid-1900s through the 1920s, Beatty Brothers rapidly acquired other Canadian manufacturing companies, such as the James Provan Company of Oshawa in 1904, [10] Whitman and Barnes of St. Catharines in 1906, [10] Cameron and Dunn of Strathroy in 1908, Tolton Brothers of Guelph and Emerson and Campbell of Tweed in 1909, [10] the assets of ...

6. Alliance Laundry Systems - Wikipedia

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   The Speed Queen brand was created in 1928 with the introduction of stainless steel wash tubs in 1939 [10] and automatic washers and dryers in 1952. [11] Eventually Barlow & Seelig was renamed Speed Queen Company, and was later purchased by McGraw-Edison. In 1979, McGraw-Edison sold its appliance division to Raytheon Company.

7. List of generic and genericized trademarks - Wikipedia

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   Derived from the name of the inventor, László Bíró. [65] Bobcat Skid-steer loader: Bobcat Company: This usage is especially common in Australia. The Clark Equipment Company has successfully defended the trademark against dilution and genericization at least in two cases relating to domain names with the World Intellectual Property ...