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Brief History of Home Appliances and the Everyday Life
Industrialization dramatically and unevenly transformed world society, altering technological patterns and work processes of preindustrial ways of life. This socio-technological revolution changed how households dealt with food provision, clothing, cleaning and medical care. In a word, it affected the basic elements of human reproduction.
With the development of mass production at the turn of the twentieth century, many traditionally male tasks were abandoned, and others were left most in the hands of women and servants. Corporate industry began providing goods and services that households had previously self-produced. As the process of modern urbanization took place, many households started to purchase foodstuffs from grocery stores, health care from physicians and ready-made clothing from department stores.
At the same time municipalities developed a water system. Hence, homes were finally equipped with running water, water heaters and indoor bathrooms. Moreover, electricity substituted kerosene lamps, whilst other electric appliances were slowly appearing on the market (e.g. electric fans, sewing machines, washing machines, and vacuum cleaners). Telephone and automobiles were also appearing in a small number of families.
These developments consolidated and further expanded during the post-war economic growth. Indeed, after World War II, household technologies dramatically spread through all the social layers. The assembly-line production of home appliances was balanced by an increasing consumerist culture and people’s adequate purchasing power. It was the era of mass consumption of refrigerators, electric dishwashers, radio, TV and many other durable goods.
Finally, as of the 1970s, the technological evolution brought the use of computers and micro-chips. This determined the massive and fast expansion of consumer electronics. At the turn of the Twenty first century, new products such as microwave ovens, compact-disc players, Mp3 players and personal computers, keep altering household everyday life. More importantly, the attention of producers is increasingly focused on the environmental impact of new technology. Indeed, the new frontier of technology should be capable to progressively address its consequent effects on human reproduction in relation to the biosphere.
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Pure Home Water – The Complete Guide to Finding the Appliance That Will Keep You and Your Kids Safe
Here’s a really simple way to decide which of the many pure home water systems is going to be best for you and your children.
First, you sort out the avalanche of information about competing pure water appliances. I’ll do that for you here. By the time you finish reading this short article you’ll have a clear idea of the five types of pure home water systems there are.
And then you simply need to make a decision about what kind of water you want to drink. You have to do this, because these different systems all produce different pure water. Strange? Well, it’s also true — there is more than one kind of “pure”. This will become clearer in a minute.
First, then, how do we group all the different types of pure home water appliances?
I put them into just five groups.
First, and probably the most popular producer of pure home water, is the carbon filter system.
It’s well known in the industry that when you pass water through carbon it absorbs almost all the contaminants water carries. So that is the basis of these cheap, easily installed filters. Some companies add enhancements to clean out certain bacteria, but all of them will remove contaminants, including the organisms Cryptosporidium and Guardia.
At the same time they let through the essential, healthy, trace minerals like calcium and potassium that are dissolved in water. This is important, as we humans need these, and if we don’t get them from drinking water we have to rely on minerals in food — which bad cooking can remove.
Next, the ceramic filters.
They are also common and look a bit like carbon filters, but are made from the fossilized shells of microscopic algae which are molded into a filter that you can clean with a brush as dirt get stuck on the outside of the millions of tiny pores that the water is passed through. These pores are small enough to stop almost everything, while letting those essential natural minerals through. Some ceramic filters have nano-silver added to make it easier to get rid of any bacteria that clog the outside opening of the pores.
Some pure home water systems still work by distilling.
Not a good idea. When you boil water and then condense it again you literally remove everything from it. That includes all those minerals that you need. Basically, these were popular 50 years ago but are largely out of vogue now.
Reverse osmosis filters also produce pure home water.
They work on an interesting scientific principle. Water that is heavy with minerals, such as sea water, is put under pressure on one side of a special membrane barrier. By simply doing that the natural tendency of water to not creep through the barrier is reversed and it moves through to a chamber on the other side where it is collected as drinking water.
Not everything goes through, however. The minerals are left behind. The water is sterile, in effect. In submarines, these units are an excellent way of getting fresh drinking water from mineral-rich, salty sea water. However medical opinion now concedes that prolonged use of de mineralized water is not healthy. We do need the calcium and other things found in natural water supplies. So these systems are not recommended long term for you and your family.
Then finally, everything else, including bottled water, comes into the remaining group of pure home water appliances.
Some of these appliances sound like science fiction. For example, there’s a system that uses infra red energy to make water pure. That sounds plausible in itself, but the source of infra red radiation in these gadgets is often a semi-precious stone, like tourmaline. Calling something like this science fiction is generous — it sounds more like the Philosopher’s Stone of Medieval Europe.
Most of the appliances in this ‘other’ category are not suitable for home units.
And certainly bottled water is no better than untreated tap water, because the regulations governing its production require nothing more stringent than that!
So, there you have it. Practical pure home water appliances fall into four main groups. They all successfully filter out certain things. Now you just need to decide what you want left out and what you must have remaining on the other side of the filtering material. I can help you a bit further as you ponder this. My site at pure-drinkingwater.com has more information and a recommendation for the type of pure home water that’s safest for you and your kids.
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