Granny
p. 113 · Read in the full issue
Curling up like Granny
As nostalgic as 78 rpm records and wind-up gramophones is the new exhibition of domestic appliances at London’s Science Museum. Although some of the material in the collec tion dates back to the spit-roasting over-an-open-fire days, most of the exhibits are from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and later. There are some extraordinary Heath Robinson contraptions—a vacuum cleaner, operated by a treadmill, a bath with a built-in fire to heat the water and a tea-maker with an arm that strikes a match to light a stove beneath the teapot.
But many of the more simple gadgets—old irons, an early gas stove, stone foot-warmers and curl ing tongs—could have come straight from my Granny’s kitchen.
The Science Museum is in Exhibition Road, London SW7, not far from South Kensington tube station.