assignment in english to it might be crazy but if it works you'll have your emancipation and still have a valid team talk sense i have a plan a plan it's a starting one but it might work then  exactly how this weekend we get her mother's up to the lake to let the men stay here and make sure they do the wash right and carol your i'd like to get mr wall and get on our side mr wall again mr lee if you'll just make sure that you have to complete laundry is ready to deliver this saturday to complete  too so did i well come on you are might as well get out of the way i wait a minute you can do that to mom what about the cribbage game you kidding with this on your hands on jim what do you mean well we men keep making it easier for women to do their work and the next thing you know we're doing today's ingenious automatic washing even so how do you go about designing a new automatic washer well first of all you begin some eight years before you decide the machine is ready for home makers and begin by checking with the ultimate user herself the first request was for an automatic washer that would get close as clean a standard wringer models that meant an agitator type how to engineer this fine idea into an automatic washer with a spin basket was a problem you have to be solved the second request was for a method of saving suds and hot water something the engineers themselves had long thought about but again figuring out how to save and reuse hot sides in a compact automatic washer with a single tub was a step engineering challenge the third request was for adaptability an automatic washer that  still at a housewife do her washing the way she wanted to do it that meant a flexible time and cycle system to these three basic demands the engineers added one of their own an automatic washer so well balanced it wouldn't need bolting down so armed with what would be right in an automatic washer your lab men proceed to find out what's wrong with existing types and then the fun  most good ideas start out as problem children it is the design engineers job to make them adoptable the engineer usually has a team of draftsmen to help him translate ideas into working parts and with time and patience and trial after trial one of your brainchildren at last becomes socially acceptable you have a flexible time or another the agitator in time gets a superior twin again after many tests and rejections you finally come up with the agitator you want one that does an even better job of washing clothes than originally requested but here in the suds return system you'll find an engineering challenge so typical it hurts that of developing a simple good idea into a good simple design starting from scratch the first exploratory attempt was crude the engineers tried an electric motor an automobile pump and a siphon line into the washer tub the first unit was manually operated through a separate switch and the water returned through the top opening of the washer tub no good in time a two way valve development got rid of the siphon hose but the new pump still hung on the side of the tub still and satisfactory then both motor and pump were hidden beneath the washer and a new problem was born in this position the pump now required precisely a pint of priming water to start it suds return action a coffee can held just enough but soon became a brightly painted specially designed priming can eventually the priming can became an aluminum derby hat itself subject to further improvement after many other refine ments the engineers finally released the unit to production a good simple design it works beautifully this button like affair is a steel rod with a hard rubber ball of each hand believe it or not the rubber ball is used to eliminate bounds again eventually simple design the ball rod suspension system is the engineers unique answer to their own problem a perfectly balanced machine that needn't be bolted down and these of course are just some of the things george warren couldn't be expected to know about automatic washers