The First Automatic Rice Cooker’s Unlikely Inventor dating back to 1955

Did you know it was that long ago!

"... Toshiba’s automatic rice cooker went on sale on 10 December 1955, but initially, sales were slow. It didn’t help that the rice cooker was priced at 3,200 yen, about a third of the average Japanese monthly salary. It took some salesmanship to convince women they needed the new appliance. ..."

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Toshiba’s ER-4, introduced in 1955, was the world’s first automatic rice cooker. Toshiba Science Museum