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Can you guess?

Throughout the 20th century an ever-growing range of appliances aimed at making everyday life easier. While innovative at the time, today these products' design doesn't always convey their function. Can you guess what they were for?

Progress GmbH, Nürtingen

Technoseum

Altner & Co., Holzhausen

Technoseum

Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken NV, Eindhoven

Technoseum

Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft, AEG-Telefunken, Frankfurt, Main

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E. Schmidt u. Co. Licht-, Signal- und Wärmegeräte, Lüdenscheid

Technoseum

Leifheit-Aktiengesellschaft, Nassau

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Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft, Berlin, West; Frankfurt, Main

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F. W. Wirtz & Co GmbH, Wuppertal-Elberfeld

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Wilhelm Hilzinger GmbH & Co., Stuttgart

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Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft, Berlin, West; Frankfurt, Main

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Siemens-Electrogeräte-AG, Berlin, West; München; Siemens-und-Halske-Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin, West; München

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Moser Elektrogeräte GmbH, Unterkirnach

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Société Universelles de Fabrication d'Appareils Menagers S.U.F.A.M., Colombes, Frankreich

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unbekannt

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AMI Entertainment Network, Inc., Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

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Elektrolüd, E. Schmidt & Co.

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unbekannt

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Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft, Berlin

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Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik, Geislingen, Steige

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Herrmann Zanker KG, Tübingen

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Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft, Berlin

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Siemens-Schuckertwerke, Berlin

Technoseum

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

Philips

Örebro County Museum

Museon-Omniversum

Robert-Krups-GmbH, Solingen

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Robert-Krups-GmbH, Solingen

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Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading

Robert-Krups-GmbH, Solingen

Technoseum

Electrolux

Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology

Electrolux Floor Care

Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology

Electrolux

Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology

Electrolux

Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology

Westinghouse

Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology

Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology

Hoover

Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology

Hugin

Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology

Electrolux, Stockholm

Technoseum

Podabs Mek Verkstad

Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology

Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology

Friedrich Neuner Metallwarenfabrik, Creußen

Technoseum

unbekannt

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