Household cleaning technical files--washers, dryers, and irons, 1929-1981.

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Household cleaning technical files--washers, dryers, and irons, 1929-1981.

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The records document Consumers' Research's testing, research, and projects concerning the performance of washing machines, clothes dryers, laundry detergents, and irons. Included are correspondence, notes, magazine and newspaper clippings, advertisements, laboratory notebooks, cloth samples, and scorch patterns for irons. Subjects included are bleaches, starches, stain removers, synthetic detergents and laundry soaps, automatic washing machines, portable washers, washer-dryer combinations, clothes dryers, dry cleaners, electric and steam irons, ironing machines, and ironing boards. Iron projects include scorch tests and cut outs. Other subjects included are hazards, standards and specifications, test methods, and statistics for the previously listed products.

13.5 cubic ft.

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Consumers' Research, Inc.

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For details of the history of Consumers' Research, Inc. and an overview of its records, see the introduction to this finding aid . From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc., General Files, Series 28-45 (only)., 1903-1982, (Special Collections and University Archives. Rutgers University Libraries) From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc.: Administrative Files: Series 1-15, 1917-1983, (Rutgers University. Special Collections and University Ar...