"Nessmuk" > wrote in message
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> In article >, Eric Jorgensen
> wrote:
>
> >
> > And even more people love them until the day they suddenly stop
working
> >in mid-stir and never so much as hum again.
> >
>
> I have one made in 1952 and still going strong.
>
> Dale
>

I don't recall seeing automatic bread machines until the late 1980's.