Iron Has Been Used Since 400 BC

Iron is certainly not foreign to our goods. With it, we become presentable clothes after washing. Iron believed to have been used since 400 BC by the Greeks. The Romans also recorded using the irons ever. The form already resembles a modern irons as they are now. Iron was called "prelum".

Ancient Iron. (Picture from: http://www.featurepics.com/)

According to other records, the iron is also used by the Chinese around the 1st century BC. Iron is a metal pot that can be filled with hot coals (coals). Over time the iron continues to experience growth. Beginning of the 17th century, the use of iron known as sadiron. This iron-shaped piece of thick metal with a flat surface and given a handle. In this period, iron refined into metal boxes that can be handled embers.

Henry W. Seely
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End of the 19th century to early 20th-century prints found iron (cast iron). Then, the year 1800 found gas irons. In 1800 found an electric irons. So, who invented the iron? Henry W. Seely invented and patented the first electric pressing iron on the 6th of June in the year 1882. The invention was named as the “electric flatiron.”

Electric irons were found Henry in the form of a flat electric irons which still has some drawbacks, namely a long hot, but very fast cool. Therefore, some scientists after Henry tried to make improvements to the electric iron technology.

Scientists are perfecting the technology irons, among Crompton and colleagues at the company's General Electrics find electric iron skillet in 1892. 

Then in 1926 the Earl Richardson and Joseph Meyers also made ​​improvements to the electric iron steam iron that was found. Now, electric irons technology has developed rapidly so that now there are electric iron in various forms and automation are very spoiled us. *** [SEPTI | PIKIRAN TAKYAT 12042012]

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