Biography of frances gabe

          Frances Gabe was an American inventor who is most well known for devising household gadgets for convenience but more specifically for designing and building the first "self-cleaning house"..

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        1. Born in , Frances Grace Arnholz later married Herbert Bateson.
        2. Frances Gabe was an American inventor who is most well known for devising household gadgets for convenience but more specifically for designing and building the first "self-cleaning house".
        3. Unlike most of us, she invented a contraption to free herself from this tedious task forever: a self-cleaning house!
        4. Frances Gabe's story is the textbook definition of iterative design.

          5. Inventor of the one and only self-cleaning home, Frances Gabe, has passed away at 101

          More than half a century ago, incensed by the housecleaning that was a woman’s chronic lot, Ms. Gabe began to dream of a house that would see to its own hygiene: tenderly washing, rinsing and drying itself at the touch of a button.

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          Gabe built the self-cleaning house with her own hands and money, receiving United States patent 4,428,085 in 1984. After more than 10 years of work and decades of planning, the house of about a thousand square feet was completed in the 1980s, at a cost of $15,000.

          The house, whose patent consisted of 68 individual inventions, also included a cupboard in which dirty dishes, set on mesh shelves, were washed and dried in situ.

          A tightly sealed cabinet was designed to deal with laundry.

          Soiled clothing was placed inside on hangers, washed and dried there with jets of water and air, and then, still on hangers, pulled neatly by a chain into the clothes clo