Norge was the first washing machine. Meaning a tub with an agitatator. The machine was not driven by an electric motor. How you ask? It used water power. Water pressure drove the mechanism.
I do not know offhand if this first 'washing machine' had a wringer, two rolls to press the water out, but it probably did.
Later came fractional horsepower electric motors and the rest is history. By the way, there was debate in the 1890's about if small HP electric motors made any sense. Impossible to imagine I know.
The Norge was built in Muskegon Michigan, a town that probably more than any represents Americas inudustrial age, and its denoument. Norge disappeared long ago. Probably in the early 70's, the time where the recession started here, and never ended.