The History of Blowdryer (also frequently called a hairdryer)

A 1900 blow dryer (France)A blowdryer, also frequently called a hairdryer, is an electromechanical device designed to blow cool or hot air over wet or damp hair, in order to accelerate the evaporation of water particles and dry the hair. Blowdryers allow to better control the shape and style of hair, by accelerating and controlling the formation of temporary hydrogen bonds inside each strand. These hydrogen bonds are very powerful (allowing for stronger hair shaping than even the sulfur bonds formed by permanent waving products), but are temporary and extremely vulnerable to humidity. They disappear with a single washing of the hair. Hairstyles using blowdryers usually have volume and discipline, which can be further improved by the use of styling products and brushes during drying to add tension, hold and lift. There is a myth that using blowdryers increases hair loss. There is no scientific evidence to support this. Blowdryers were invented around the end of the 19th century. The first model was created by Alexandre F. Godefroy in his salon in France.

The first hair dryer was the vacuum cleaner! Around the turn of the century, women dried their hair by connecting a hose to the exhaust of their vacuum cleaners. In early models, the front of a vacuum cleaner sucked air in, the back blew air out, and the hose could be attached to either end.
In 1920, the first true hair dryer came on the market, but it was extremely large and heavy, and frequently overheated. Since then, thousands of patents have been issued for different hair dryer designs, but most of them only tweak the outside packaging of the hairdryer so that it looks more aesthetically appealing to you. Aside from the addition of some safety features, the inside of a hair dryer hasn't changed too much over the years. Not until 1951 was the first really workable dryer made. The device consisted of a hand-held dryer connected to a pink plastic bonnet fitted over the woman’s head.

FunctionMost models use coils of wire that have a high electric resitivity and heats rapidly with an electric current. A fan usually blows ambient air past the hot coils resulting in heated air effective for drying. The heating element is most hairdryers is a bare, coiled nichrome wire that is wrapped around insulating mica heating boards. Nichrome wire is used in heating elements, because of two important properties. It is a poor conductor of electricity and it does not oxidize when heated.

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European Car of the Year 2008 Fitted Out with Hair-Dryer Compatibility

The Fiat 500 is European Car of the Year 2008, and little wonder. It is smart, sassy and, for what is basically a small, soft blob of metal, enormously covetable. But it is also, essentially, half a century old. The first 500 rolled out of Italian factories in 1957 - a comically diminutive, rear-engined buzz-about, generally regarded as the first ever "city car". By the time production ceased, in 1975, the "Cinquecento" was looking tired, flat and, in the world of battleships like the Ford Granada, increasingly likely to get run over. For a good 40 years, the 500 was destined to have a limited appeal beyond enthusiasts and people with a strong sense of irony.


Of course, there will be one or two differences between the new 500 and the old models. The original, meagre but willing 479cc air-cooled engine has been replaced by front-mounted engines in more generous sizes, from 1.2 litres upwards, so the chances are the new 500 won't sound like someone blowing a raspberry down a mailing tube.


Also, it will be fitted out with the comforts that we have to come to take for granted in even the most modest cars: electric windows, remote locking, probably even compatibility for a hair-dryer. And it will be fatter all round than the original 500, making it far harder to reverse it into the gaps between other parked cars in such a manner that the bumpers end up parallel with the pavement (standard practice with an old Cincquecento in Rome, among other places).