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Frances Gabe (born June 23, 1915 in Idaho , † December 26, 2016 in Oregon ) was an American inventor and artist . She invented the first self-cleaning house .

Life

Frances Gabe was born Frances Grace Arnholtz on a ranch near Boise . At the age of 16, she graduated from Girls Polytechnic High School in Portland . At the age of 17 she married Herbert Grant Bateson. They had two children, Grant and Lourene, and ran a repair shop in Portland. After her divorce in the 1970s, she changed her last name to 'Gabe', which is composed of her first name initials and her husband's last name initial. She was portrayed in the book Fugitives and Refugees by Chuck Palahniuk . She died near Portland at the age of 101.

Act

In 1980 she applied for a US patent on a self-cleaning house. The house was built in Newburg . Production costs were $ 15,000 and the estimated market launch price in 1984 was $ 50,000. The house had a largely waterproof facility and nozzles on the ceiling, from which a detergent solution and then water for rinsing were sprayed. Then a hot air fan began drying. The washing program lasted a total of one hour. The floors were slightly sloping with drains at the low points. The shelves were built from grids. Water-sensitive materials were covered with a waterproof cover before the wash program. The patent consisted of 68 inventions and lasted until 2002. Fred Amran (Professor of Creativity at the University of Minnesota ) called the patent "incredibly complex, the longest I've read so far". The house was featured on Ripley's Believe It or Not! portrayed. The house was exhibited at The Women's Museum in Dallas, Texas in 2002 and 2003 . The house and Frances Gabe were also featured in People Magazine in 1982 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles W. Carey: American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries . Infobase Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8160-6883-8 , pp. 139-40 (accessed on October 7, 2012).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Frances Gabe, Inventor of the Self-Cleaning House, Dies at 101 . The New York Times. July 18, 2017. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
  3. ↑ Chuck Palahniuk: Fugitives and Refugees , Crown Publishers, New York, 2003. ISBN 9781400047833 . Pp. 29-33.
  4. ↑ Frances Gabe Heard Our Plea , The Victoria Advocate . January 19, 1982. Retrieved August 6, 2015. 
  5. ^ A b Autumn Stanley: Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology . Rutgers University Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8135-2197-8 , pp. 374-5 (accessed October 7, 2012).
  6. ^ Modern marvel: The self-cleaning house , New York Times . February 2, 2002. Retrieved August 6, 2015. 
  7. ↑ Frances Gabe's Self-Cleaning House Could Mean New Rights of Spring for Housewives , people.com. March 29, 1982. Retrieved August 6, 2015. 
personal data
SURNAME Gabe, Frances
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American inventor and artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Idaho
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 2016
Place of death Oregon