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LicenseThe original "Teasmade" automatic tea-making machine
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The original "Teasmade" automatic tea-making machine
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
The original "Teasmade" automatic tea-making machine
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
The original "Teasmade" automatic tea-making machine
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
The original "Teasmade" automatic tea-making machine
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
The original "Teasmade" automatic tea-making machine
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The original "Teasmade" automatic tea-making machine, comprising cream-painted wooden base and electric clock with lamp socket, chrome-plated cubic electric kettle with patented element no.388911, and earthenware teapot with brown mottled glaze.
This version of a tea making machine, or "tea waker", was invented by engineer W.H. Brenner Thornton who subsequently sold the patent (414,088 1934) to the British Vacuum Cleaner and Engineering Co. Ltd. who marketed it under the Goblin Teasmade name. This was one of the first successful commercial automatic tea maker, of which this is the original prototype.
Cream-painted wooden base and fulcrum, and clock by Smith's English Clocks Ltd Cricklewood with lamp socket at top, part of the original "Teasmade" automatic tea-making machine invented by engineer W.H. Brenner Thornton who subsequently sold the patent (414, 088 1934) to the British Vacuum Cleaner and Engineering Co. Ltd. who marketed it under the Goblin Teasmade name, English, 1932
Chrome-plated cubic electric kettle with tubular spout and wood handle, element patent 388911, part of the original "Teasmade" automatic tea-making machine invented by engineer W.H. Brenner Thornton who subsequently sold the patent (414,088 1934) to the British Vacuum Cleaner and Engineering Co. Ltd. who marketed it under the Goblin Teasmade name, English, 1932
Earthenware teapot with mottled brown glaze by Price Bros., England, part of the original "Teasmade" automatic tea-making machine invented by engineer W.H. Brenner Thornton who subsequently sold the patent (414,088 1934) to the British Vacuum Cleaner and Engineering Co. Ltd. who marketed it under the Goblin Teasmade name, English, 1932
