Electric Toasters

Electric Toaster- Kadiah Harris and Brian Bobak

The Electric Toaster was a life changing thing in the 19th century and was one of the most common appliances in the American and European Households. Am American, named Charles P. Strite from Minneapolis, Minnesota was the inventor of the first pop up toaster. Before electric toasters were made to toast your bread you would have to hand slice bread over oven flames. The invention of the toaster was revolutionizing to the people of the 20’s due to the fact it was much more simple. The earliest of electrical toasters were bare wire around mica strips and were heated by an electrical current and the strips spread the heat evenly among  the bread. Additionally, in 1926 the toaster that could heat both sides of the bread was released to the public. Very soon after the pop up toaster came into play with a built in thermostat & revolutionized the toaster game and became a common household item.

Milestones:
1905 Albert Marsh discovered Nichrome the filament wire needed to toast bread
1906 George Schneider applied for a patent for his version of the electric toaster. It is never built.
1909 General Electric introduces their first electric toaster for the home. Invented by Frank Shailor
1913 Hazel and Lloyd Copeman apply for toaster patents
1913 Copeman Electric Stove Company introduced toaster with automatic bread turner
1914 Westinghouse introduces electric toaster for the home. Under license of Copeman patents
1919 Charles Strite invents a automatic pop-up bread toaster and applies for a patent
1921 Waters Genter Co. formed to manufacture Strite's toaster and market it to restaurants.
1921 Two of Strite's patent application are approved
1926 Strite file patent application for his design for a home toaster
1926 Waters Genter Co introduce their first electric toaster for the home under the Toastmaster name
1926 Max McGraw purchased Waters Genter Co. and the Toastmaster brand
1928 first mechanical pre-sliced bread goes on sale to the public in Chillicothe, Missouri
1929 Patent 1,698,146 issued to Strite for the automatic pop-up toaster for home use
1930 Wonder Bread begins selling pre-sliced bread, most bakeries follow suit
1933 toaster sales skyrocketed, thanks to the standardized size of sliced bread
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In this brief milestone timeline, you can easily see the years in which major toaster contributions were made.