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1919 Manners-Smith's Apparatus for Boiling Water
On 2nd April 1919 John Alexander Manners-Smith made his second application for a patent, GB143351A for ‘Improvements in apparatus for
Models
Every teasmade model in date order.
Jan
01
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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Jan
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
Jan
01
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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Jan
01
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
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Jan
01
1932 Absolom Teesmade
On May 2nd 1932 George Absolom submitted an application for a patent on his invention, an electric automatic tea maker,
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Jan
01
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
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Jan
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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
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Jan
01
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
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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
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