While our great-grandparents – and even our grandparents – toiled away for hours on mundane tasks around the home, chances are you have multiple labour-saving and leisure devices that you take for granted scattered throughout your house. But have you ever stopped to think about where they came from, who came up with them and what your life would be like without them?

Click or scroll on to discover everything from early dishwashers and dryers to vintage TVs and lawnmowers and watch their fascinating evolution unfold...