#ClothesDryer August 15
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August 2026 several of us are going to take on the 30-Day Plugged in Coach4aday Challenge. Each day, we will feature an item from home or office that requires being plugged into a source of electricity to operate. We will reflect on how it makes life easier. For Day 15 it is the CLOTHES DRYER.
For family, relatives, and neighbors who visited our home in Northern New Jersey during the 1960s, our backyard clothesline was hard to miss. My dad, who worked for NJ Bell, managed to procure a telephone pole and installed it about 80 feet from our elevated back porch. That clothesline was how my mother dried our clothes until sometime in the late 1960s, when we finally got an electric clothes dryer.
The image below captured the essence of our backyard design, but it was not ours.
Day 15-Clothes Dryer
Of all the devices that got electrified in the 20th century the clothes dryer was relatively a later invention.
The first electric clothes dryers appeared in the early 20th century, with J. Ross Moore developing an early electric clothes-drying machine around 1938. The machines gradually became more practical and affordable, but widespread household adoption did not occur until the 1950s and 1960s, as electricity became more readily available and Americans embraced labor-saving appliances. By the 1970s, the electric clothes dryer had become a common feature in many American homes, transforming laundry from a backyard clothesline chore into an indoor, year-round convenience.
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