A toaster is a small electric appliance that uses radiant heat, generated by heating elements typically made of nichrome wire, to brown sliced bread into toast. The first stand-alone electric toaster, called the Eclipse, was manufactured in 1893 by Crompton and Company of Chelmsford, England, and toasted bread on only one side at a time using bare heating wires, requiring the user to turn the bread by hand to brown both sides, a limitation that later automatic pop-up designs would eliminate.
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YearSourced to the subject's own account SignificanceSourced to the subject's own accountThe automatic pop-up toaster, ejecting the toast once done, was first patented by Charles Strite in 1921; in 1925 the Waters Genter Company introduced the redesigned Model 1-A-1 Toastmaster, the first automatic pop-up household toaster able to brown bread on both sides at once, setting the pattern for the modern household toaster. 1 Sources
1. Toaster (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHistory section, opening paragraph, Wikipedia article Toaster
The first stand-alone electric toaster, the Eclipse, was made in 1893 by Crompton & Company of Chelmsford, Essex.
History section, automatic pop-up paragraph, Wikipedia article Toaster
The automatic pop-up toaster, which ejects the toast after toasting it, was first patented by Charles Strite in 1921.
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