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Fireplace
You had to sit in front of a fireplace to dry your hair. Sometimes smoke could blow in and make your hair smell like smoke. So you had to wash it all over again. -
Stove
Instead of using a fireplace you would heat up water on the stove then put your head in the sink. Pour the water over your head and wash then use a towel to dry. After that brush your hair ovver the stove to finish drying. -
Vacum Cleaner
People would use the exhaust from a vacum cleaner to dry there hair. It was faster than using a towel but still took a while. The inspiration from using a vacum cleaner led to the hairdryer. -
Hair Hood Dryer
invented for use in a salon, it was a big hood that blew heated air around your head. Still used in salons today. -
Hair Dryer
HAir dryers then where heavy and hard to use. They sometimes over heated and electrocuted people. It could only use 100 watts compared ti todays 2000 watts. -
Improvements
Little change as been made to the actual mechanism in the hair dryer other than some small safety things. Most improvements were made to make it look better and imrpove wattage. -
Safety
In the 1970s some safty giudelines were put in place to make hairdryers safer. By 2000 deaths had dropped to 4 deaths a year which is a big difference to the hundreds a year before. -
Wireless Hairdryer
Patents for a wireless hairdryer were submitted. Now being produced with longer battery life. -
SIlent Hair Dryer
Dyson submitted a patent for a hair dryer that was silent. Useing a smaller motor it reates less noise. Less nosiey hairdryers is a big improvement on the ones now because a big problem with hair dryers is they make to much noise. -
Touch Screen Hair Dryer
A touch Screen Hair dryer uses a touch sensitice screen to adjust temperature, ion content, and air speed. -
Today's Hairdryer
Since its invention most of the improvements to the hair dryer were astectical. There were some small safety and wattage improments but other than that mostly the mechanism is the same.