Hair Dryers

In class this week one of the presentations was on hair styles around the 1920s. Well doing some research on what was

happening at that time I found out that the first handheld hair dryer was invented in the 20s. The very first hair dryer was invented in the 1800s. It was pretty much just a large fan that women sat in front of and eventually women were able to dry their hair at home by using a hose that hooked up to the exhaust of a vacuum cleaner. Finally in 1920 that handheld hair dryer came out. The first one was made out of nickel and zinc and weighed about a pound. I can't imagine using a hair dryer that weighed a pound to dry my

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hair.http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/hairdryer.html

http://hubpages.com/hub/The-History-of-the-Blow-Dryer

http://www.myhairstylingtools.com/blog/434/