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How to design an actually good toaster with lessons from the 1940's11:02

How to design an actually good toaster with lessons from the 1940's

851K views • 6 years ago
Technology Connections
Technology Connections praises a 1940s-50s Sunbeam toaster and explains what makes a toaster well designed, drawing on a vintage Sunbeam video.
The Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours18:28

The Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours

3.4M views • 7 years ago
Technology Connections
Technology Connections takes apart a 1940s Sunbeam Radiant Control toaster. It senses the toast's own browning and lowers and raises it automatically using purely mechanical parts and no electronics.
Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster -- from scratch11:22

Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster -- from scratch

282K views • 15 years ago
TED
Designer Thomas Thwaites describes his attempt to build a toaster from scratch, from mining ore and deriving plastic from oil. It is a short TED talk on how much civilization a simple object depends on.