Charles Perkins Strite was an American inventor known for inventing the pop-up toaster. He received United States patent number 1,394,450 on October 18, 1921, for the pop-up bread toaster. Strite then formed the Waters Genter Company and made the pop-up toaster publicly available in 1926. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Charles Perkins Strite (February 27, 1878, October 18, 1956) was an American inventor known for inventing the pop-up toaster.
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The automatic pop-up toaster, which ejects the toast after toasting it, was first patented by Charles Strite in 1921.
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