Answer: A toaster
Early electric toasters—like the previous one, which was built in 1921—had the same basic mechanism as the ones we use today.
Slices of bread were held in a cage and pushed down toward a heating element, which crisped it right up. Funnily enough, the toaster was actually created before sliced bread was invented—the latter wasn’t a mass-market product until 1928.
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Looked something like an old vacuum but the hint f a man using it says maybe a beard trimmer.
Coffee grinder.
Coffee Grinder
Toaster
Crank phone
Phone
Hair Clippers
Hand hair clippers
home made ice cream maker
The hand clippers were a torture device. They pulled more hair than they cut. Remember my dad getting them out and a chair when I was very young. I remembered my previous encounter and scurried under the bed. Wrong move. The bed moved and I was physically placed in the chair to endure another hair pulling.
low energy washing machine and low water.
Stove top toaster
Early toaster without the electrical cord.
Printing press.
Hair clippers