1920s

Jan
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Electric Home Comforts advertisement 1927

1920s, Kettles by the Bedside

By the 1920s electric appliances were becoming increasingly popular, and for a while it seemed that kettles would kick teasmades
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Jan
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1922 Karslake Magic Kettle

1922 Karslake Magic Kettle

On Monday 23 January 1922, the Adelaide Register, South Australia, reported on a teasmade invented by Herbert James Karslake. This
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01

1928 Robert Lawson's Appliance for Making Tea

Robert Frederick Lawson, a British Subject in Canada, applied for a patent for ‘Improvements in appliances for making tea or
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1928 Ethelred Willson's Improved Automatic Tea Maker

1928 Ethelred Willson's Improved Automatic Tea Maker

Ethelred Alfred Willson applied for a patent for ‘Improvements in Automatic Means for Heating Water, Making Tea and the Like’
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