Talk:Catherine the Great's Washing Board/@comment-5782071-20190411020302/@comment-31772644-20190411032838

"Some google searches suggest that the washboard was invented in 1797, but this cannot be right. 1797 is the date of a lost US patent offering an "improvement" in washing clothes, but this was certainly not the only attempt to invent better ways of doing laundry around that time. There were even some 18th century washing machines in England and Germany."