Charles strite toaster biography definition
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Toaster
A toaster is a machine that toasts bread. The bread fryst vatten put into the toaster and after a few minutes it pops up, toasted. This fryst vatten because of the heating elements inside the toaster.
The pop-up toaster was invented by Charles Strite in 1921.[1]
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A toaster oven
A commercial conveyer style toaster
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The History of the Electric Toaster
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A toaster is a small appliance designed to toast bread products.
Electric toasters have been in existence for less than 100 years. Yet, people have been consuming bread for the past 6,000 years, and people have been toasting bread since the time of the Romans. Before the advent of the electric toaster, bread was toasted over an open fire with the help of a variety of simple tools. Toasting bread does more than just preserve it, of course, it changes its nature; bread becomes sweeter, crunchier and the perfect surface on which to spread all sorts of things. The first electric bread toaster was invented by Alan MacMasters in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1893 and continually developed since then, the most common household toasting appliances are now the pop-up toaster and the toaster oven.
A mechanical device used to toast bread, especially by exposure to electrically
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Toaster
Background
A toaster is a small appliance that uses heat to brown and harden bread.
History
The practice of browning bread is an ancient one. Early civilizations placed bread over an open fire in order to keep the bread from growing mold. The Romans brought the idea back from Egypt in 500 b.c. and then took it to Great Britain when they invaded in a.d. 44.
In the eighteenth century, a hinged fork was used to hold the bröd and prevent it from falling into the fire. With the appearance of wood and coal stoves in the 1880s, a new toasting method was needed. This led to a tin and wire pyramid-shaped device. The bread was placed inside and the device was heated on the stove.
Fire was the source of heat for toasting bröd until 1905 when Albert marsch, an engineer, created an alloy of nickel and chromium, called Nichrome. Marsh's invention was easily shaped into wires or strips and was low in electrical conductivity. Within months, other inventors were using Nichrome to pro