Sometime around 1920, so my grandmother said, it was believed that everything that could be invented had been. An explosion of consumer goods in that decade had made everything from telephones to toaster ovens to vacuum cleaners and automatic washing machines-things nobody had even heard of a few decades earlier-must-own items for every respectable household.
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