{"id":374,"date":"2019-04-15T15:46:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T15:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simply-laundry.com\/blog\/dry-cleaning-origins\/"},"modified":"2019-06-13T07:19:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T07:19:43","slug":"dry-cleaning-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simply-laundry.com\/blog\/dry-cleaning-origins\/","title":{"rendered":"Dry Cleaning Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The founders of&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simply-laundry.com\/\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Simply Laundry<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&nbsp;were sitting around one day, discussing the business, when one of our marketing specialists asked us&nbsp;&#8220;who invented Dry Cleaning?&#8221;. Our curiosity piqued and we decided to Google exactly how dry cleaning came to be. We discovered that&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dry_cleaning\" style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6;\">Thomas L. Jennings<\/a>, an African American,<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.6;\">&nbsp;was the first person to receive a patent&nbsp;on March 3rd, 1821 for his dry cleaning process called&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ask.com\/history\/invented-dry-cleaning-aa2c95e91a325797#full-answer\" style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Dry Sourcing.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.6;\">&nbsp; What is interesting, is that at that time, slavery hadn&#8217;t even been fully abolished in the state of New York. Nevertheless, Jennings was undeterred. So imagine how tough it would have been for him to receive a&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/topics\/business\/innovators\/thomas-jennings-perfected-dry-cleaning-he-pushed-abolition\" style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">patent.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Please&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drycleancoalition.org\/download\/drycleaning-historical_developments.pdf\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Click Here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&nbsp;for a more chronological history of Dry Cleaning.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founders of&nbsp;Simply Laundry&nbsp;were sitting around one day, discussing the business, when one of our marketing specialists asked us&nbsp;&#8220;who invented Dry Cleaning?&#8221;. Our curiosity piqued and we decided to Google exactly how dry cleaning came to be. We discovered that&nbsp;Thomas L. Jennings, an African American,&nbsp;was the first person to receive a patent&nbsp;on March 3rd, 1821<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleaning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simply-laundry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simply-laundry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simply-laundry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simply-laundry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simply-laundry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simply-laundry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/simply-laundry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simply-laundry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simply-laundry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simply-laundry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simply-laundry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}