/ kalebeul / 2008 / 03 / 19 / washing machine invented in barcelona /
I ask because the chattels of the gentlemen right fore in this early nineteenth century image of the Palace of Barcelona clearly include a front-loading automatic:

Blasco de Garay, eat your heart out.
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