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Shopping via Phone by the Automatic Washers

Illustration: Bettmann
Illustration: Bettmann (Getty Images)

This futuristic design, showing the woman of 1975 making purchases over the phone, was really all about the ease of doing the dishes, the laundry, and anything else needed with the touch of a button.

The 1962 TV show “The Jetsons” would have some fun with this idea years later, but this was a very earnest prediction in the mid-1950s. In fact, if you were reading the Jan. 1955 issue of Scientific American magazine, you saw an ad about laundry that looked identical to this slide.

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