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The dishwasher was invented in the 1880s by Josephine Cochrane, who was a wealthy woman that often hosted parties and needed a way to clean her dishes quickly. By the 1920's the dishwasher was a pillar of the kitchen and could be owned by a variety of socioeconomic groups.
The television was invented in 1927 by Philo Taylor Farnsworth in San Fransisco. This black and white television was the predecessor to the modern day television and vastly changed the way people lived there lives and how advertisers got to consumers.
The first radio signal was sent and recieved in 1895 in Italy by Guglielmo Marconi Marconi, however it became widely used the creation of crystal radios which were very easy to use and make at home.

This is a crystal radio which was among one of the first radios to be made. This radio allowed people to join the newly founded radio craze because they were easy to make at home.

The air conditioning unit was first invented in 1902 by Willis Carrier, it was first invented to cool down his printing plant and not for human comfort however in the 1920s this unit attained widespread use in households across the western world.

In Willis Carrier, a young engineer at the Buffalo Forge Company in Buffalo, N., invented the first modern air conditioning, to cool a printing plant.

While the refridgerator was invented in the 1750s, the refridgeraotr only became commonplace in the household in the 1920s and 30s, this obviously made a huge difference in people's lives and the lives of food companies and grocery stores.
The Band - Aid was invented in 1920 by an employee of Johnson and Johnson and his wife so that she could treat her cuts and burns she recieved while cooking.
Penicillin was invented in 1928 by Alexander Fleming at St Mary's Hospital in London, England. Penicillin was the first true anti - biotic and began a new era of medicine and the treatment of diseases.
Artificial Insulin was invented, or rather discovered by Sir Frederick Banting and his assistant Charles Best. The artificial insulin was used to treat diabetes, which is a resistance to the insulin your body produces. Before this invention diabetes was basically a death sentence.

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