By Eric Norcross , all rights reserved. T he Sunbeam Model T-20 appeared on the market in the late 1940s and, although it underwent some minor design changes and retoolings, it remained in Sunbeam's product line until 1997. Engineered by Ludvig Koci with the design supervised by Ivar Jepson and styled by Robert D. Budlong, the T-20 was the first fully automatic toaster.
Toast raises itself silently, without popping or banging.
This is supposed to prevent the bread from being able to burn. Model 3815, 1990s. This article was first published in Hotwire , the newsletter of The Toaster Museum Foundation .