Word: extractor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mother's Day, a Manhattan store offered the "all-in-one shears, a many-armed gadget which can be used as a fish sealer, bottle opener, nutcracker, screw-cap opener, hook extractor, pliers, screw driver, or hammer...
After this comes the whirling extractor, which presses water from the washed towels. The final phase of the cycle is the drier, powered by a 10 horsepower electric motor, which revolves and tumbles 100 towels at a time until they are soft...
...Lucite plastic bearings in a giant citrus-juice extractor are lubricated by the juice they squeeze, are not affected by the sterilizing steam and the fruit acids, which wear down bronze...