@helenS :) this reminds me of when I was about 7 or 8 years old and we got an electric clothes dryer. Until then clothes was hung on a clothes line to dry.
The dryer had a front door window and an inside light.
For about 2 weeks we'd pull up chairs and gather around and watch clothes dry. We were one of the first on our block to have a dryer and a few of the neighbors would come by and joined the excitement of watching clothes dry.