Talk:Clothes line

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Can anybody figure out if the Hill Hoist is a copyright violation? RickK 22:46, May 9, 2005 (UTC)

No sorry it is not

Well, you sure didn't write it, Nengli, it's beyond your level of spelling and grammar. RickK 19:38, May 10, 2005 (UTC)

Someone needs to so some deeper research on this whole Hills Hoist issue. I know we all like to think that the rotary washing line is an Aussie invention but apparently it isn't. The ABC broadcast a doco last year that traced the development of the humble hoist. It seems it was pre-dated by several decades by a British patent and that too was pre-dated by an American device that was shown in Scientific American magazine in 1855. Basic programme info is available from the ABC.

[edit] Merge: clothes line /washing line

I say washing line, but my (Chambers) dictionary has the defn at clothes line. Anyone care? JackyR 18:36, 7 April 2006 (UTC)