In picture #16 there is a store that sells home appliances. Some of the products that are featured on the sign of the store are stoves, furnaces and kitchen goods. Appliances have been around for hundreds of years but the modern gas and electric appliances were emerged in America during the twentieth century. Home appliances are made to be as useful and user friendly as possible. They are such important products that there are stores and multi-billion dollar companies created for selling only appliances.
                 There are hundreds of different home appliances made for many different uses. Some of the most known appliances are air conditioner, clothes dryer, dishwasher, drying cabinet, freezer, refrigerator, stove, water heater, washing machine and microwave. Some uses for home appliances are too heat things up, to cool things off, to wash things, to preserve things and there are many more uses. The 5 most popular brands of home appliances are Haier, Whirlpool, LG, Panasonic and General Electrics. Home appliances have been around as long as man kind, even if they were just a hammer made out of stone and a stick, and they will be improving for thousands of more years.