A mangle is a machine which is designed to press laundry. Originally, mangles were used to help press the water out of laundry, to ensure that it would dry more quickly when hung to dry. In the modern eras, mangles are usually used to press dry laundry flat, and they are common in industrial laundry facilities which handle things like sheets; using a mangle is far more efficient that pressing by hand. Smaller mangles for home use can also be found in some regions of the world. The first version of the mangle was the box mangle, developed in the 17th century. A box mangle consisted of a heavy box on rollers which was painstakingly pushed across wet laundry to press it. Using a box mangle required at least two people, since the box was typically weighted with bricks or stones, making it impossible to move alone, and it would have been a grueling task. In the 18th century, the first form of the modern laundry mangle emerged. A mangle has two large rollers which are turned by hand with a c
You’ll be forgiven if you don’t know what it is: a mangle is a cast iron contraption with two wooden rollers, a spring, and a side wheel with handle. Its function is to wring clothes dry after you wash them, so obviously it’s now obsolete with the invention dryers and all … A few years ago, Nancy Alford was in a local department store when she saw, and fell in love with, a mangle. For her sixteenth wedding anniversary, Nancy wanted (and got) – you guessed it, a mangle. Her husband thought she was mad. Since then, she has collected so many of them that they had to build a new house (which she aptly named Mangleten) to fit all her mangles. Link 13. Victor Paul Taylor’s Scratchcard Collection Victor Taylor is a lotologist (yes, a made up word meaning someone who collects lottery tickets). He has a particular interest in “Instants” Scratchcards, produced by Camelot for the UK National Lottery. As far as I can tell, none of the scratchcards have been scratched, so he’s sitting on a potent
You’ll be forgiven if you don’t know what it is: a mangle is a cast iron contraption with two wooden rollers, a spring, and a side wheel with handle. Its function is to wring clothes dry after you wash them, so obviously it’s now obsolete with the invention dryers and all … A few years ago, Nancy Alford was in a local department store when she saw, and fell in love with, a mangle. For her sixteenth wedding anniversary, Nancy wanted (and got) – you guessed it, a mangle. Her husband thought she was mad. Since then, she has collected so many of them that they had to build a new house (which she aptly named Mangleten) to fit all her mangles.