Hair dryer
A hair dryer (when a handheld type also called a blow dryer) is a device that blows cool or hot air using a fan. Hair dryers are usually used to speed up drying wet hair.
The main parts of a hair dryer are a motor-powered fan and an electrically heated element. The element heats up when an electric current flows through it. When air from the fan goes through the barrel of the hair dryer, it is heated by the element. The hot air passes out of the end of the hair dryer (the nozzle). The user can direct the nozzle towards their hair.[1]
Alexandre Godefoy created the first model of the hair dryer in France in 1890.
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Hair Dryer Media
- Braun hair dryer.jpg
A modern Braun hair dryer
- HairDryer.jpg
From 1900 Encyclopedie Larousse Illustree.
- AEG Foen Nr72355 03 mod03 res.jpg
Dryer made by AEG, c. 1920–1925
- Hooded dryer for infrared hair drying at hair salon - shown from three perspectives.jpg
Special type of hooded dryer: Professional electrical infrared hair dryer for hair salons, c. 2010s
- Handheld blowdryer.jpg
The normal use of a hair dryer today
Bonnet hair dryer, circa early 1970s
Girl using a bonnet-hood hair dryer, 1965
Girl under beauty parlor hair dryer, 1958
References
- ↑ "Hairdryers", How It Works Book of Amazing Technology, Imagine Publishing, p. 84, 2011, ISBN 978-1-908222-0-84