![]() The gadgets seemed to be just a little bit magical. But it wasn’t until the 1920s that electricity, along with a growing middle class and consumer culture driven by advertising and mail order catalogs, made home appliances possible, desirable, and easily obtainable - for those who could afford them. Likewise, many home appliances had already been invented, such as the vacuum cleaner (1901), electric iron (1905), washing machine (1907), and electric toaster (1908). In that decade - now 100 years in the past - innovations in home appliances promised to make life easier and better.īy 1920, telephones, gramophones, and automobiles had been around for decades. The TV show is fictional, but the technological changes during the 1920s were real. Patmore replaces the icebox with a refrigerator? Or when the Downton household gathers around the radio to listen to a broadcast of the king’s speech? ![]() Remember the scene in Downton Abbey where Mrs. ![]() ![]() (Photo from the FDR Presidential Library via Wikimedia Commons. ![]()
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