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George James Gray was an electrician, born in Clerkenwell in about 1850. He married Jane Woodley, from Brixton, in 1875. They had six children, two of whom died in infancy: George James junior (1876) Lilian (1884), Florence, Maud (1891). He began his working life as a clerk, then by 1891
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John Alexander Manners-Smith BSc was an electrical engineer from Coniston, Haslemere, Surrey. He was an associate member of the Institution for Electrical Engineers.
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On 3rd December 1910 John Alexander Manners-Smith submitted an application for a patent for ‘An Improved Means for Boiling Water and Obtaining an Infusion of Tea or any Desired Beverage at a Prearranged Time’.
1910s
On March 27 1911 Josiah Wilkins, an engineer from Blackburn, submitted a patent application for an automatic tea making appliance, GB191107570DA. The application was published on 14th December 1911. Tea, apparatus for making. An automatic tea-making appliance is fitted with means whereby the amount of water used may be
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Josiah Wilkins was an engineer from 56 Charlotte Street, Blackburn. He submitted an application for an automatic tea maker in 1911.
1910s
An Australian, a man named in the Adelaide Advertiser as Mr W Maggin (sic) of Kurralta Park, Adelaide, South Australia, claimed to have invented a teasmade in about 1912. I believe this was William Magain. It was very similar to Richardson’s invention of 1904. An article in the Adelaide
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An Australian, named as Mr W Maggin (sic) in the Adelaide Advertiser, claimed to have invented a teasmade in about 1912. After extensive digging and finding no W Maggin in that area, I identified a likely candidate in William Ronald Magain. He usually went by the name William Magain. William
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On 2nd April 1919 John Alexander Manners-Smith made his second application for a patent, GB143351A for ‘Improvements in apparatus for boiling water at pre-arranged times and for similar purposes’. This was published on 27th May 1920.
1920s
By 1922 electric kettles had found their way into our bedrooms. Here's a glimpse into that world.
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Herbert James Karslake was born in Mortehoe, Devon, in 1882, the son of railway signalman and porter Michael Karslake. Herbert spent his childhood living in the railway cottages at Mortehoe. By the age of 18 Herbert was training as a plumber’s apprentice. He married Linda Fry Pile in 1908.
1920s
On Monday 23 January 1922, the Adelaide Register, South Australia, reported on a teasmade invented by Herbert James Karslake. This is the earliest record I have found of his invention. The article reads: A device that automatically makes an early morning pot of tea has been invented by Mr H
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Robert Frederick Lawson of 418, Claremont Avenue, Westmount, Province of Quebec, Canada, was a British Subject. He applied for a patent for a tea making appliance in September 1928.
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