One of the many mysteries in Mexicois who and when created the galvanized sheet tuban object that marked the lives of millions of mexicans for its enormous utility in home duties.
In it the mothers of families put boil the corncook the meat for a party, or later clean it in order to use it again. jacuzzi for the little ones in the homeIn short, it was a multipurpose, practical and economical product.
Galvanized sheet tubs from 1900
As far as is known galvanized sheet tub began to be common in Mexican homes in the early 1900s, this is intuited because there are photographs from that time with happy mexican children being bathed in them.
However, its presence could date back a long time, since luigi galvanithe Italian who discovered how to create an anti-rust coating for metals through electricity, made his famous discovery around 1780.
An object that marked the life of Mexicans
It is to be assumed that after that they began to manufacture in Italy, Europe, the United States and of course in Mexico, not only tubs, but also buckets. pipes, watering cans for plants, among an endless length of utensils that obviously had contact with water.
However, for Mexicans, tubs have been the objects that have most marked daily life for generations; Well, as already said, they were used for bathing or cooking, but they were also used for things like storing beers or other drinks for parties.
Galvanized sheet tubs, multi-purpose utensils
The mothers of the family also used them to store the clothes once washed or even wash or rinse the clothes right there. But when they began to become essential in all homes in Mexico, something happened that would change their destiny.
At the beginning of 1980, a European invention from 1941 arrived in national territory, we are talking about plastic, with which all kinds of objects were immediately created, especially buckets and bath tubs for babies.
The arrival of plastic tubs
Of course the mothers preferred the plastic tubs on the galvanized metal ones, because the new ones were cheap, unbreakable, light and waterproof, since then the days of the metal tubs, which left so many memories in the Mexicans, began to have their days numbered.
Currently a few factories produce and sell the galvanized sheet tubsalthough surely there are few mothers or fathers who choose to bathe their little ones in one.
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