1930 Ron Grumble Early Morning Waiter
In 1930 Ronald George Grumble, an instrument maker and inventor from Eltham, Kent, made a highly desirable automatic teasmade, the
1932 Absolom Teesmade
On May 2nd 1932 George Absolom submitted an application for a patent on his invention, an electric automatic tea maker,
1932 Bombay Radio Company Teasmade
On November 22nd 1932 Mrs Joy Dorothy Virmani applied for a British Patent via Hatton Gardens patent agents Boult Wade
1932 Ethelred Willson's Improved Automatic Teamaker
Ethelred Alfred Willson and Alfred John Tennison made a second GB patent application on 21st March 1932, also for ‘Improvements
1932 William H B Thornton Prototype Teasmade 1
William Hermann Brenner Thornton created a plywood bodied prototype teasmade in 1932. The example illustrated here was donated to the
1933 William H B Thornton Prototype Teasmade 2
On January 27th 1933, William Hermann Brenner Thornton applied for his first patent on a teasmade. This was less than
1934 Beckingsale Tea Maker
The battle to produce a commercial electric teasmade was extraordinarily heated. The two earliest inventions were Absolom’s patent application
1934 William H B Thornton Prototype Teasmade 3
On January 23rd 1934 William Hermann Brenner Thornton, (on this occasion calling himself William Harry Thornton), applied for a second
1935 Absolom Patent Number GB440941
Patent number GB440941 was applied for on August 21st 1935. George reached an agreement with L.G. Hawkins to manufacture
1936 Goblin Day Model
A Goblin leaflet about the 1936 teasmade range featured two models: an Alarm Model with a clock, and a Day
