It is quite curious how sometimes we can ask ourselves questions about things that are quite common in our daily lives. One of those things is when we wonder who invented the mop. All our lives we have grown up looking at mops, on television, in the programs we watch, in those favorite childhood cartoons, when we go out into the street and enter an establishment or in our own home.
- The mop is an instrument similar to a broom but with all the qualities of a mop. This utensil was invented in Spain and it didn’t take long for it to go “viral” since its usefulness is quite necessary today. The mop helped hundreds of thousands of people to stop aching their backs or knees with typical floor mops. This invention is undoubtedly one of the most useful in terms of cleaning tools.
- Nowadays it is very difficult to imagine that we do the cleaning without the help of a mop. This invention is extremely comfortable when cleaning. Just dip it into the cleaning solution that we are using and wring it out a bit to start mopping the floor, this is much more practical than those times when our grandmothers bend down and clean the floor using a mop with their hands. For this and more reasons is that the mop has become the friend of many housewives and masters.
- But have any of you asked who was the person who invented this very useful tool or under what circumstances did you need to create it? Well, these and more questions are what we want to answer in this article, we want to investigate a little about the history of this curious and undoubtedly wonderful cleaning utensil and finally, we will know who invented the mop.
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- In the middle of the 20th century, around the 50s, there was already talk of a utensil very similar to the broom that was a great wonder to help do domestic cleaning. At that time when sexist stereotypes of what women and men had in various activities to carry out predominated, there was talk of a broom that was so cool that men would want to use it to clean the house.
- We talk about the mop. This utensil did not take long to become a commercial success. However, not everything was so easy at first, it took several presentations for people to understand how this type of mop worked. That’s right, for many people, it was difficult to understand how to handle a mop. Something so incredible since it is a utensil with which you can wash the floor at the same time that you are sweeping it, or in this case, mopping.
- However, this invention did not come out of nowhere, it has a history of how it was created. The inventor who is credited with creating the mop was named Manuel Jalón Corominas, who was born in Logroño Spain on January 31, 1921, but grew up in Aragon. The one who at that time was a young Spanish inventor belonging to the Spanish Aeronautical Army, not only invented the mop but also invented the disposable syringe. As you can see, some of those useful things, which we could not live with today, have come from the invention and creativity of who was one of the most transcendent minds of 20th-century Spain.
- During his stay in the United States, Jalón saw how the cleaning women did it using a long, flat cloth, which was used to clean by hand and which drained through two rollers which squeezed it. After his return to Spain in 1956, Jalón decided to implement his version of these mops, but this time his use would be much more practical for those who used what we know today as the mop.
- This utensil mixed the practicality of a broom which could be easily handled with the hands without the need to bend down or adopt uncomfortable postures, but at the same time, it had a material that was distributed in several strips of absorbent cloth which complied with the function of a mop. This invention was quite successful and although many people have tried to claim this achievement, until today the only official version of who invented the mop is awarded to Manuel Jalón.
- This man founded his own company whose articles were quite recognized in the world, even many foreign investors of well-known companies had been interested in Manuel’s work. This man invented the squeezing roller bucket and the mop, facilitating the cleaning of thousands of Spanish and foreign homes as well as the cleaning of establishments around the world.
- This Spanish inventor died on December 16, 2011. Leaving a whole legacy of useful inventions without which today it would be very laborious to clean anywhere.
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