The steady improvement of modern kitchens throughout history can be credited to much of the work done in the'th and early 20th centuries to improve work process in the factory and in the home. Additionally, the concurrent improvement in the manufacture and production of certain appliances over the last several centuries has created kitchens today that are extremely modern and futuristic.
Industrialization, owing to the Industrial Revolution and the improvements in equipment in commonplace items such as stoves, plumbing and the like provided the first direct impetus to the modernization of the kitchen. And though the upper classes benefited from kitchens in the'th and'th centuries that were not all that different in basic design from the ones today, the lower classes certainly did.
As always with anything created for the upper classes -- which stoves, refrigerators and other kitchen items certainly were -- the technologies, as they became more common, became less expensive to own which also meant they could be purchased by more people in more socioeconomic classes. Stoves, refrigerators and other kitchen items meant that a separate room could be created for a kitchen in any home.
Concurrently with the work done to improve home technologies, efforts undertaken to bring plumbing (meaning running water) to the typical home along with natural gas and electricity meant that many cities in the late'th century began to see improvements in stoves and refrigerators and the way they were manufactured. Stoves that could be heated via natural gas soon replaced coal-fired stoves.
Still, even into the first third of the 20th century, the expense and effort needed to bring electricity, natural gas and modern plumbing to every area meant that many homes in rural parts of the country still were without the necessities that we today take for granted such as electricity and plumbing. This meant that modern kitchens in those homes were still a ways off.
Along with improvements in the manufacture of home technologies, improvements developed as a result of the streamlining of work contributed greatly to kitchen design. Industrial engineers of the'th and 20th centuries design kitchens to be more efficient so that the women cooking in them could return back to the factory floor much quicker and therefore devote more time to work.
This effort also led to technical improvements in kitchens that saw extremely efficient designs in refrigerators and stoves, especially, that not only worked to make food preparation and storage easier but also saw design elements creep in that reflected the forward looking dreams that many people of the early and mid-20th century had when it came to design and utilization in the home.
Nowadays, modern kitchens usually bear little resemblance to kitchens from even 50 years ago at least in terms of the efficiency and modernity of the appliances in the design of the room in which these appliances reside. Utilization of space is more efficient and effective than ever before, though we tend not to give the kitchen more than a passing thought no matter how vital it really is in our lives. - 33383
Industrialization, owing to the Industrial Revolution and the improvements in equipment in commonplace items such as stoves, plumbing and the like provided the first direct impetus to the modernization of the kitchen. And though the upper classes benefited from kitchens in the'th and'th centuries that were not all that different in basic design from the ones today, the lower classes certainly did.
As always with anything created for the upper classes -- which stoves, refrigerators and other kitchen items certainly were -- the technologies, as they became more common, became less expensive to own which also meant they could be purchased by more people in more socioeconomic classes. Stoves, refrigerators and other kitchen items meant that a separate room could be created for a kitchen in any home.
Concurrently with the work done to improve home technologies, efforts undertaken to bring plumbing (meaning running water) to the typical home along with natural gas and electricity meant that many cities in the late'th century began to see improvements in stoves and refrigerators and the way they were manufactured. Stoves that could be heated via natural gas soon replaced coal-fired stoves.
Still, even into the first third of the 20th century, the expense and effort needed to bring electricity, natural gas and modern plumbing to every area meant that many homes in rural parts of the country still were without the necessities that we today take for granted such as electricity and plumbing. This meant that modern kitchens in those homes were still a ways off.
Along with improvements in the manufacture of home technologies, improvements developed as a result of the streamlining of work contributed greatly to kitchen design. Industrial engineers of the'th and 20th centuries design kitchens to be more efficient so that the women cooking in them could return back to the factory floor much quicker and therefore devote more time to work.
This effort also led to technical improvements in kitchens that saw extremely efficient designs in refrigerators and stoves, especially, that not only worked to make food preparation and storage easier but also saw design elements creep in that reflected the forward looking dreams that many people of the early and mid-20th century had when it came to design and utilization in the home.
Nowadays, modern kitchens usually bear little resemblance to kitchens from even 50 years ago at least in terms of the efficiency and modernity of the appliances in the design of the room in which these appliances reside. Utilization of space is more efficient and effective than ever before, though we tend not to give the kitchen more than a passing thought no matter how vital it really is in our lives. - 33383
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