1832-1839 (the exact year is uncertain), Robert Anderson of Scotland invented the first electric carriage
1839, first car wash is invented in his garage
1914, two Detroit men opened the first public one, the Automated Laundry( hydrofluoric acid used as cleaning agent)
1951, Elephant car washes opens up in Seattle (first franchise car wash)
1951, first car wash using Automated robot arms ,etc are used
1976, Car Wash" is a 1976 number-one single by Rose Royce for MCA Records
2006, Oasis a “touch free’ car wash opens
When the car was first invented and sold to the public car washes were a pretty predictable “corrosion” of the automobile invention, when these establishments opened they were all “man operated” establishments, meaning lots of labor (workers) are needed and used to keep these business opens and as car washes spread across America in the 1950’s hundreds of people had simple manual labor jobs open up for them. But with the introduction of the automated systems in the car wash business less “hands” were needed to operate the stores meaning a shift in labor demands is inevitable. So over the years less and less workers are needed and as employers realize seasonal obstacles limit actual human involvement in their business companies like Oasis become another inevitable evolution for the car wash industries and there technologies, Oasis being the first “touch free” or completely automated carwash eliminating the need for actual hands on involvement of humans besides the engineers who check and fix these all automated systems. Not only affecting the number of workers needed but also the type of workers needed. Shifting the demand from simply “young” and fit workers to clean and wipe cars to intellectual and logic workers who are thinkers who can fix and interpret the ailments of computers and their involved systems
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