Nationality Scottish Name Alan MacMasters | ||
Full Name Alan Alexander MacMasters Occupation Scientist, inventor, industrialist Died December 25, 1927, Versailles, France | ||
Education University of Edinburgh | ||
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Alan MacMasters (20 March 1865 – 25 December 1927) was a Scottish scientist. He is credited with creating the first electric bread toaster, which went on to be developed by Crompton, Stephen J. Cook & Company as the Eclipse. Although not ultimately a commercial success, MacMasters's invention would pave the way for Charles Strite to invent the automatic pop-up toaster in 1919, which is the device we know as the toaster today. MacMasters died of heart failure on 25 December 1927 at the age of 62.
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