Talk:Home appliance

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Appliances is more generic term than just home appliances. NetApp is network appliance, e.g. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.18.43.11 (talk) 23:10, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

I suspect more people in the world directly interact with home appliances than network appliances. However there are pages for what you're mentioning or were looking for, Network Appliance, Inc. has had a page since 2004, and Computer appliance has had a page devoted to the subject since April of 2007. Computer Appliances may have been named in reference to the fact that they operate in a fixed manner somewhat like the well established functions of home appliances. Whitebox (talk) 02:05, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Rework needed
Clearly this set of articles (home appliance/domestic appliance, major appliance, small appliance, appliance) are in a mess, and poorly referenced.

This comment continued at Talk:Major_appliance. Earthlyreason (talk) 14:48, 26 January 2009 (UTC)


 * You wrote "Clearly this set of articles (home appliance/domestic appliance, major appliance, small appliance, appliance) are in a mess, and poorly referenced."
 * I agree... That is why I wrote about the role of an appliance repair technician (that is not even referenced) with no bias, pure facts, citing Wikipedia and other resources.
 * Read it here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Appliance_Tech Appliancetechsc (talk) 07:49, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Agreed. This article is a complete mess. Why does Small Appliances only speak about brown goods? I think they'd be under an Electrical Appliances article, if anything. If you look at a site like Appliances Online or someone else prominent, 'small appliances' are coffee machines, toasters, and food prep equipment (mixers, etc). This seems to be the industry standard, so this article should follow that grouping. M0z (talk) 23:33, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

How should we structure this article?
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As the comments above from 2009-11 point out, the article's structure is poorly defined. It begins by classifying appliances into 3 groups, but never talks about those groups further. Instead it just talks briefly about several topics relating to home appliances. Do any TAFI editors have ideas for the ideal structure of this article? Winner 42 Talk to me!  02:16, 4 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Perhaps merge in to one massive article?, other than that I'm stumped as too what to do to be honest. – Davey 2010 Talk 02:24, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
 * That might work, this article is quite a difficult one to work through because the topic is relatively unique and very broad. Winner 42 Talk to me!  14:22, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

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History timeline
It would be nice to have a table with timeline of major household appliences being invented/patented, and becoming a thing (produced in mass, advertised in papers, and generally available to more than richest people, etc, even if it means 1000 units per year). Example: Hairdrier (invented 1911; en mass production: 1920), electric washing machine (1904), light bulb (invented/patented 1878-1880; mass production 1898?), electric fan (desk, ceiling; invented 1882 & 1886; en mass production: 1909-1920), electric stove (patented 1859 & 1892 & 1897; small production: 1908-1920s; en mass production: 1930s), electric toaster (invented 1893; en mass: 1909), etc. 81.6.34.172 (talk) 15:54, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Societal impact
I think it would be good to have a section on the societal impact of so much of the domestic manual labor being done by machines instead of - to put it in simple terms: women. There should be some references out there [] []. AndersThorseth (talk) 13:50, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 February 2024
The role of an Appliance Repair Technician in repairing of home appliances is an important to note. These technicians serve as maintenance professionals on home appliances for the public. Appliancetechsc (talk) 07:33, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: Please wait until your draft is accepted first. QuietCicada chirp 15:32, 17 February 2024 (UTC)