Alan MacMasters
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A portrait of MacMasters around the time of his toaster creation.
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| Born | Alan Alexander MacMasters 20 March 1865 Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Versailles, France |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Education | University of Edinburgh |
| Occupation | Scientist, inventor, industrialist |
Alan MacMasters (20 March 1865 – 25 December 1927) was a Scottish scientist. He is credited with creating the first electric bread toaster, which went on to be developed by Crompton, Stephen J. Cook & Company as the Eclipse.[1][2] Although not ultimately a commercial success, MacMasters's invention would pave the way for Charles Strite to invent the automatic pop-up toaster in 1919, which is the device we know as the toaster today.[3] MacMasters died of heart failure on 25 December 1927 at the age of 62.
