It looks like a hair dryer from Mars.

What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity turn a boring wash day into an intellectual day of reading.

Industrial designer Brooks Stevens developed the first electric dryer with a glass window in the 1940s.

One morning, when I was feeding my pigs, I noticed a particularly tasty looking sun dried tomato loaf that used to crop up from time to time.

The nuclear waste typically goes into a dry cask storage out back of the parking lot at the reactor site because most places don't have underground storage yet.

The most common spray dryers are called single effect as there is only one drying air on the top of the drying chamber (see n 4 on the scheme).

It's almost as if somebody came into your home and rewired your walls so that the next time you turned on the light switch, the toilet flushed three doors down, or your dishwasher went on, or your computer monitor turned off.

In November 2008, a non peer reviewed study was presented to the European Tissue Symposium by the University of Westminster, London, comparing the bacteria levels present after the use of paper towels, warm air hand dryers, and modern jet air hand dryers.

We've seen the creation of small computers in the '70s and early '80s, and who would have thought back then that every single person would not have just one computer but probably 20, in your home, and in not just your P.C. but in every device in your washing machine, your cell phone.