Charles Strite

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Charles P. Strite, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, received U.S. patent #1,394,450 on October 18, 1921 for the bread-toaster. During World War I, Strite worked in a manufacturing plant in Stillwater, MN, where he became frustrated with the burned toast served in the cafeteria. Strite, determined to find a way of toasting bread that did not depend on human attention, invented the pop-up toaster with a variable timer.

In 1925, using a redesigned version of Strite's toaster, the Waters-Genter Company of Minneapolis, MN began to market the first household toaster - called the Toastmaster - that could brown bread on both sides simultaneously, set the heating element on a timer, and eject the toast when finished. By 1926, Charles Strite's Toastmaster was available to the public and was a huge success.

External links

• [USPTO notes on Charles Strite]

 

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