In 1918, the company, known as the ' Hotpoint Electric Heating Company', merged with the Heating Device Section of General Electric, becoming the 'Edison Electric Appliance Company'. Richardson founded his own settlement, Adelanto, California, in 1915.Įdison Electric Appliance Company It is claimed to have developed one of the earliest electric toasters in 1908, known as the El Tosto, and later, under GE, the Hotpoint brand name became one of the most popular brands of toaster in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. Hotpoint sign in Great Barrington, Massachusetts Earl Richardson also invented the first iron that switched off automatically when a maximum temperature was reached. In 1912, the company began making electric irons, and in 1919, electric cookers in the United States.

Hotpoint was founded in 1911 by Earl Richardson. The device became known as the Hotpoint iron, with its hottest point at the front and not the center. Invented by American, Earl Richardson ( 1871–1934) in 1905, he subsequently formed his 'Pacific Electric Heating Company' in Ontario, California, in 1906. The company name Hotpoint comes from the hot point of the innovative first electric iron. History Pacific Electric Heating Company Ownership of the brand is split between American company Whirlpool, which has the rights in Europe, and Chinese company Haier, which has the rights in the Americas through its purchase of GE Appliances in 2016. Hotpoint is a British brand of domestic appliances. Washing machines, dishwashers, refrigerators, freezers, cookers, tumble dryers 1911 112 years ago ( 1911) in Ontario, California, United States

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