El Eggo Electric Egg Boiler
date: label: date made
content: ca 1915
name: label: maker
content: Pacific Electric Heating Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Inventors introduced many electrical kitchen appliances in the years before the First World War. The ease of turning on an electric appliance and controlling the current appealed to people used to having to tend a fire in order to cook. Power companies liked selling appliances since they were often used during the day when light bulbs were turned off. That kept expensive generators from sitting idle.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The trade name on this egg boiler, El Eggo, is not entirely a play on Spanish. The El is actually short for electric. Pacific Electric Heating Co. marketed an entire line of electrical products using that prefix, for example El Toasto for a toaster.
topic: label: web subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: web subject
content: Food Processing
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
label: Exhibition
content: Object Project
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From John B. Macgregor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.330791
label: catalog number
content: 330791
label: accession number
content: 298637
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Egg Boiler, Electric
label: Object Name
content: egg boiler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fits together (top connector/connecting technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 5 3/4 in x 10 1/2 in; 26.035 cm x 14.605 cm x 26.67 cm