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The Clean Machine
Inventions like the washing machine have made housework quicker and easier. Today, people can save countless hours on housework thanks to different kinds of machines. However, it's possible that nobody has saved more time on housework than inventor Frances Gabe.
As a child, Gabe disliked housework, like many children do. She did not want to spend time cleaning the oven or washing the floor. But she enjoyed going to work with her father, who designed and built buildings for a living. She learned about design from watching him work.
Years later, Gabe was tired of cleaning up after her own messy children. So she used her design skills to construct a home that cleaned itself. She put sprinklers in the ceiling of each room. When she pressed a button, the sprinklers would spray soap and water all over the walls and the floor. The extra water washed down a drain in each room. Gabe added hot- air machines to blow the rooms until they were warm and dry. She also built a special shelf that washed dishes, and she made a closet that washed clothes. All in all, Gabe invented sixty- eight different tools to help her house clean itself.
Gabe's home was not perfect. She had to put covers on her tables, chairs, couches, and books to keep them safe from the sprinklers. And her sprinklers sometimes broke down and sprayed water in the wrong places. Gabe was only able to build one complete self- cleaning home. But her bold ideas live on in the cleaning robots of today.
What is the text about?
It is about what led Frances Gabe to make a house that cleans itself.
It is about how Frances Gabe learned to design machines when she was young.
It is about why Frances Gabe taught people to clean.
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