Eli5 – Why aren’t washing machines spherical?

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Why are they cylindrical shape and not ball shape. Would that not be better for more random movement of the items inside and therefore be better for washing them?

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You can put more clothes in it if it’s a cylinder. No matter what shape it is, if it spins it takes up a cylinders worth of space, so making it any other shape is just making it smaller than it could be.

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