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Improvements in modern kitchens throughout the centuries pay homage to the innovation and hard work undertaken by many people, especially inventors and other innovators in the’th and 20th centuries, to streamline work and improve equipment of all types. This is especially so when it comes to kitchen appliances. In fact, kitchens today owe much to the work taken to improve these appliances.
As with many other improvements in our daily lives, the advent of the Industrial Revolution — the era when more and more manufacturing processes came to be fully mechanized and industrialized — saw the direct improvement in home technologies such as refrigerators and stoves. In fact, by the late’th century, the design of the modern kitchen was pretty much assured for even the lower classes.
As always with fashions and styles that at first are affordable only to the wealthier in society, mass production — which really began to take primacy of place in the manufacture of a limitless number of goods — allowed the cost of the stove and other items now found in every kitchen to become less expensive over time. This meant that more people than ever could afford a stove, for example.
Along with improvement in home technologies, concurrent improvements in plumbing that allowed running water to be brought into the home and the laying of natural gas pipes in the late’th century throughout many cities around the country allowed stoves to be manufactured that took advantage of self-contained heating rather than using coal to fire the stove.
Even though these improvements were bringing many more possibilities in kitchen design to the masses in larger cities, it was the case that, right up through the first third of the 20th century, many homes in rural areas still were without indoor plumbing and electricity. That meant that today’s modern kitchen was still far off in the distance for many people back then.
Efforts undertaken by industrial engineers to streamline work processes had a direct impact on the development of a modern way of designing kitchens. These small galley-type kitchens that consisted of a stove, a refrigerator and a kitchen sink packed into a small space were designed to make it possible to prepare foods in much less time which meant that women could spend more time at the factory.
This effort also led to technical improvements in kitchens that saw extremely efficient designs in refrigerators and stoves, especially, that not only worked to make food preparation and storage easier but also saw design elements creep in that reflected the forward looking dreams that many people of the early and mid-20th century had when it came to design and utilization in the home.
These days, most modern kitchens have almost nothing within them that would remind one of a kitchen of old. Over the last half-century even greater improvements in appliances have pushed kitchen design to the cutting edge. Nowadays, they are more efficient and even more spacious than ever. We may not appreciate them for what they are, but kitchens are a vital area of almost every home.
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