Although the concept of toasted bread goes back to ancient times, and toasting apparatuses have been used for over a century, the first electric toaster was created in Scotland in approximately 1893.
Toaster Strudel was invented by the company General Mills.
There are lots of abreveations for GEC, but the company that invented the electric toaster, is called The General Electrical Company
The first electric toaster was invented by the British company Crompton and Co in 1893. This first toaster was only able to toast one side of the bread slice at a time and required constant supervision.
One of the first products of the General Electric Company was the electric toaster.
1931
Russel Hobbs invented the glass toaster.
The modern electric bread toaster was invented by George Schneider and Albert Marsh in 1921. They were engineers at the General Electric Company.
The first electric toaster was invented in 1893 in Great Britain. The pop-up toaster was invented in 1919 by Charles Strite in Minnesota.
The toaster was invented before World War I, which lasted from 1914 to 1918. An electric toaster was invented in 1893, but it was not commercially successful. A successful electric toaster was invented in 1909, also before WWI. But the pop-up toaster was not invented until after WWI, in 1921. So it is likely that refinements of the toaster invention were continuing during the war.
The first electric toaster was invented in 1893 in Great Britain by Crompton and Co (UK) and re-invented in 1909 in the United States. It only toasted one side of the bread at a time and it required a person to stand by and turn it off manually when the toast looked done. Charles Strite invented the modern timer, pop-up toaster in 1919. Source: about.com
They were invented because there had to be a good treat out there.
The toaster was invented in 1909 by Frank Shailor