Shakers invented the washing machine, to name but one peice of technology.
It makes sense if you think of the amount of communal laundry they had to
do, all of the same type and needing the same treatment.
Farah
On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Edward James wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, DAVID CHRISTENSON wrote:
>
> > -- [ From: David Christenson * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] --
> >
> > > Quakers are often confused with Shakers and with the Amish (or is it
> > Omish, as
> > > you spell it?), though. I believe that the Shakers are more-or-less
> > > anti-technology.
> >
>
>
> The Shakers were a sort of subset of Quakers, in the sense that mother
> Anne and the original Shakers who came over from England to America at the
> end of the 18th century had been Quakers, or some ofd them had been. But
> there is virtually NOTHING that the Shakers and the Quakers have in
> common, except their name! ANd, far from being ant-technology, the Shakers
> actually invented a number of machines in the nineteenth-century. I cannot
> offhand remember which ones at the moment... but standard labour-saving
> machines, anyway, helping them in their various businesses (seed-growing
> and selling, furniture-making etc). They were a very practical bunch.
>
> Edward James
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