In some countries, more and more people are becoming interested in finding out about the history of the house or building they live in. What are the reasons for this? How can people research this? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

The diagrams show the comparison between the growth of the ratio of households with electrical
appliances
and the
time
consumed by
housework
every week. The data is collected from 1920 to 2019. The
first
diagram clearly illustrated the trends of the ownership of 3 kinds of electrical
appliances
, including washing
machine
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machines
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,
refrigerator
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and vacuum
cleaner
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. In 1920, there was barely any family
had
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a refrigerator while 40% of families had washing machines and 30% of families had vacuum cleaners. After 60 years of rapid growth, refrigerators had been equipped in every family in 1980. During the same period, the ratio of vacuum
cleaner
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cleaners
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increased much slower and stable, and it reached 100% in 2000. Until 2019, the percentage of
household
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with
washing
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machine
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has never reached 100%, remained at about 65% with the slowest popularization
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during the past century with even a slight decline in 1980. The
second
diagram has only one line recording the tendency of the weekly
time
consumption of
housework
, and it had been significantly reduced in the past 100 years from 50 hours to nearly 10 hours. The relative remarkable drop from 1920 to 1960 may be the result of the rapid popularization of
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refrigerator
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at the same
time
. In conclusion, the opposite trends of ownership of electrical
appliances
and
time
consumption for
housework
on the diagrams reflected a possible relationship between them which the popularization of electrical
appliances
was likely to be
a
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effective way to save
time
for
housework
.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Historical research
  • Genealogy
  • Architectural styles
  • Heritage
  • Relics
  • Oral history
  • Archival records
  • Museum exhibits
  • Historical societies
  • House tours
  • Renovation projects
  • Original blueprints
  • Careful documentation
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