Re: 1935 General Electric home-automation video.
The General Electrics commercial is very impressive.
I think the first televison was before 1930, the picture tube was invented pretty early. The first TVs wasn't for home use, but several sets in a place like a cinema where people visited. I have only seen it from early black and white film taken in Germany, and I think UK too. Some places say the very first transmission was in the US.
I have seen Miele washing machines from the 1930s, rounded shape with a door similar to modern machines. They were bolted to the floor, very solid construction, and was not like the early top loaders.
I don't think many could afford the first refrigerators and home appliances. The info is a bit conflicting, but several places say post WWII was the era these appliances came into mass production and gradually became more affordable. Still quite an investment for the average home.
Inventions are out some time before they become mass produced. Electronics exhibitions show new computer stuff, screens and gadgets years before we see them in Apple or HP products in the store today too.
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