Named after "nothing", the first practical one of these appliances was invented in 1907
These quickly gained an excellent 
reputation and the name was changed on... [DOC] [TLE] History of the Kitchen Stove - Old-House Online [PAR] The kitchen of the 1907 Evans House in California is dominated by a 1926 
Smoothtop ... who designed the earliest such cooking devices to scientifically 
control heat as ... as the inventor of the Thermos Bottle and the fireplace that 
bears his name, ... After 1900, though, gas companies were seeing electric power 
companies... [DOC] [TLE] Inventors and Inventions of Scientific Instruments ... [PAR] The first anemometer, a disc placed perpendicular to the wind, was invented in 
1450 ... Levers are one of the basic tools; they were probably used in prehistoric 
times.