Mary Florence Potts
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Mary Florence Potts was an American businesswoman and inventor. She invented clothes irons with detachable wooden handles, and they were exhibited at the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition World's Fair and
Mary Florence Potts, ca. 1895
Potts 1872 patent of clothes iron mechanism
Conventional 19th century all-metal irons with Potts's detachable wood-handled ones. Trivet is under the iron with white handle.
Mrs Potts cold wooden handle sad iron kits manufactured 1876–1950 by American Machine
Clothes iron
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A clothes iron, also known as a flatiron, smoothing iron, dry iron, steam iron, and simply iron, is a small appliance that, when heated, is used to press clothes to remove wrinkles and unwanted crease
Mary Florence Potts
…She died in Baltimore on June 24, 1922, and was buried at the New Camden Cemetery, Camden, New Jersey. Potts is associated with improvements to the sadiron that she started making from the age of 19. The old English word of sad before the "iron" meant heavy, dense, and solid. She had her first patent in…
Modern electric steam iron
A charcoal iron
Box iron (Minalin, Pampanga, Philippines Museum).
Flat iron stove