Household Appliances
- Ballbarrow – James Dyson
- Perambulator – William Kent designed a baby carriage in 1733
- Collapsible baby buggy – Owen Maclaren
- Domestic dishwasher – key modifications by William Howard Livens
- "Bagless" vacuum cleaner – James Dyson
- "Puffing Billy" – First powered vacuum cleaner – Hubert Cecil Booth
- Fire extinguisher – George William Manby
- Folding carton – Charles Henry Foyle
- Lawn mower – Edwin Beard Budding
- Rubber band – Stephen Perry
- Daniell cell – John Frederic Daniell
- First incandescent light bulb – Joseph Wilson Swan in 1878.
- Tin can – Peter Durand
- Light switch – Invented by John Holmes in 1884
- Corkscrew – Reverend Samuell Henshall
- Mouse trap – James Henry Atkinson
- Postage stamp – Rowland Hill
- Modern flushing toilet – John Harington
- The pay toilet – John Nevil Maskelyne, Maskelyne invented a lock for London toilets, which required a penny to operate, hence the euphemism "spend a penny".
- Electric toaster – Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton
- Teasmade – Albert E. Richardson
- Magnifying glass – Roger Bacon
- Thermosiphon, which forms the basis of most modern central heating systems – Thomas Fowler
- Automatic electric kettle – Russell Hobbs
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Famous quotes containing the word household:
“Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)