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Who invented the toaster?

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Who invented the toaster?

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When this question is posed, usually the questioner is interested in who invented the electric toaster. There is information about just this subject in the 1900-1920 section of The Cyber-Toaster Museum. There is evidence now that either an inventor at the Pacific Electric Heating Co. (later Hotpoint), someone at the Simplex Electric Co., or Hoskins Manufacturing came up with the first American electric toaster, but there is no known patent coverage so we don’t know the date or the person. And, we’ve heard rumors that there is an 1893 English toaster that was the very first electric, but we haven’t tracked down any info yet. Details on the inventor who designed the first automatic pop-up toaster can be found on the 1920-1940 page. Of course, there was toast before electricity. The ancient Egyptians are credited with first making bread as we know it today (leavened, with natural yeast), and probably made the first toast by placing bread near fire. Return to Questions.

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