Teasmades featured in the Sunday Times colour magazine in The Facts of Life section on September 23rd 2001. The article by Kathy Brewis (how appropriate is that?!!!) was headlined: ‘EUREKA! SCIENTIFIC MILESTONES’, and it used a DO1P1 picture from the Argos catalogue as an illustration. It read:
The concept behind every guesthouse’s pride and joy dates to 1902, when a Birmingham gunsmith created a clockwork tea-maker. Brenner Thornton developed the idea, and invented the Teasmade in 1936. Goblin mass- produced it, and by the 1950s it was a must-have for every nylon-nightie-clad housewife. The style police ridiculed John Major for keeping one by his bed, yet 30,000 new D01P1 Teasmades are still sold every year. And older models often grace car-boot sales.
Kathy Brewis, Sunday Times colour magazine, September 23rd 2001
