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by Answerbag Staff on February 18th, 2010

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What woman invented the clothes wringer?

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  • by Samantha Cheshire on February 18th, 2010

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    Ellen Elgin, an African-American woman from Washington D.C., invented the clothes wringer in the late 1880s. She never patented her invention, but instead sold it in 1888 for $18. She was afraid that if she received the patent, white women would not buy a product invented by an African-American.

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    Inventions: Female Inventors

    The University of Alabama in Huntsville: Women in the History of Technology: Women Inventors

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