Alan MacMasters: How the great online toaster hoax was exposed

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Alan MacMasters: How the great online toaster hoax was exposed

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Alan MacMasters: How the great online toaster hoax was exposed. For more than a decade, a prankster spun a web of deception about the inventor of the electric toaster. His lies fooled

Walton EMC - Fun Fact-The toaster has been making mornings easier since 1893! The electric toaster was invented in 1893 by Alan MacMasters in Scotland. He called his invention the Eclipse toaster.

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Alan MacMasters: How the great online toaster hoax was exposed