Suburban chic
Invented in Stillwater, the first pop-up toaster became part of a shift toward modern lifestyles
On October 18, 1921, Charles Strite, a Stillwater mechanic, received a patent for the first pop-up toaster. By the 1940s, the device had become a must-have in every household and the greatest thing invented since slice bread. (The first machine-sliced bread wasn’t sold until 1928.) After World War II, U.S. manufacturers shifted from producing tanks […]
