"Cheerie" Toastove
date: label: date appliance and switch made
content: 1909 - 1910
label: date plug made
content: ca 1926
name: label: maker
content: Hoskins Manufacturing Company
label: appliance maker
content: Hoskins Manufacturing Company
label: switch maker
content: Cutler-Hammer Mfg. Co.
label: plug maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description
content: Circular, combination electric flatbed toaster and stove. Consists of a circular block of white refractory material with nickel-chromium resistance wire coil inset into a spiral groove on top and four cabriole wire legs ending in black, hard rubber feet attached to underside. Removable exterior frame with wire grid has a vertical rectangular, embossed metal plate riveted to exterior: “HOSKINS/ELECTRIC/TOASTOVE/TYPE DA NO. \1/U.S. PATENTS/FEB. 6, 06/APR. 30, 07/MAY 14, 07/JUL. 9, 07/110V. 4.5A/HOSKINS MFG. C\O./ELECTRIC HEATING/APPLIANCES/DETROIT”. Spiral-pattern, brown and yellow cloth covered cord with a Cutler-Hammer, 250-volt/6-ampere, gray-blue glazed porcelain pendant push-button switch; replaced General Electric two-pronged black plug marked “PATENT/1611014”.
label: Description
content: Patents:
label: Description
content: US 811859 A, Feb 6, 1906, Albert L. Marsh of Lake Bluff, IL, assignor to the Hoskins Company of Chicago, IL, for "Electric resistance element”
label: Description
content: US 852338 A, Apr. 30, 1907, Albert L. Marsh of Lake Bluff, IL, assignor to the Hoskins Company of Chicago, IL, for “Electric stove”
label: Description
content: US 853891 A, May 14, 1907, Albert L. Marsh of Lake Bluff, IL, assignor to the Hoskins Company of Chicago, IL, for “Electric resistance element”
label: Description
content: US 859608 July 9, 1907, Albert L. Marsh of Lake Bluff, IL, assignor to the Hoskins Company of Chicago, IL for "Electric resistance element”
label: Description
content: US 1611014 Dec. 14, 1926, Walter A. Frantz for “Cord terminal”
label: Description
content: According to the catalogue card, an advertising flyer in the object file lists this stove as being sold for $5.00 in 1907.
label: Description
content: Maker is Hoskins Manufacturing Company, formed circa 1905 after Illinois inventor William Hoskins (along with Albert L. Marsh, a metallurgist), patented a new alloy of nickel and chromium, which they named “Nichrome.” Formed to produce high temperature electric lab furnaces, some attribute the first commercially successful electric bread toaster (circa 1907) to Hoskins Manufacturing. The patent for Nichrome was eventually sold to General Electric.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place appliance made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
label: place switch made
content: United States: Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Hoskins Manufacturing Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.0062
label: catalog number
content: 60.0062
label: accession number
content: 225029
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Table Stove, Electric
label: Object Name
content: table stove, electric
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: chrome or nickle plate (circular frame with grate; legs material)
label: Physical Description
content: wire, nichrome or chromel (heating wire material)
label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (heating block material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth (cord covering material)
label: Physical Description
content: porcelain (switch material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (feet; plug body or cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (plug prongs material)
label: Measurements
content: table stove, electric: 13.5 cm x 18.8 cm; 5 5/16 in x 7 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: toaster stored with wrapped up electric cord: 5 3/8 in x 10 7/8 in x 6 1/2 in; 13.6525 cm x 27.6225 cm x 16.51 cm