Person:Mary Bishop (18)

The clothes dryer was originally tried in England and France in the early 1800s. One early type, called a "ventilator," had the clothes wrung out by hand, place in a cylindrical metal drum with holes or slits in it, and turned by hand over a fire. The clothes would dry out, but they might burn, and they would always smell strongly of smoke, and they might pick up soot from the smoke. The first electric models appeared in England and North America around 1915.

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Name Parents Born Bishop, Mary Asubah Bishop, Stephen - King, Sylvia 1812 Bishop, Mary Bishop, Elijah - Clark, Lavinia 22 January 1813 Bishop, Mary Bishop, John - Debord, Rhoda 15 October 1804 Bishop, Mary Ann Bishop, Job - Joyce, Hannah 30 December 1808 Bishop, Mary Jane Bishop, George Dolbier - Burbidge, Jane Jenny 16 March 1807