hotwire is the newsletter of The Toaster Museum Foundation. It contains a variety of subject matter relating to toasters: articles on specific toasters, collector profiles, information on companies and industrial designers, as well as toaster-related fiction, poetry and art.

Some of the material published in hotwire gets posted here on our website. You can find a listing of the articles available online on the Articles Page.

Below is a listing of all the issues thus far produced and their contents. You can order back issues of all except for Volume 1, #1 (no longer available) by printing out and mailing in this PDF Order Form.

Volume 1, Number 1

• Whence This Foundation? - foundation history, part I.
• Company profile of Landers, Frary & Clark.
• Letters to the Editor.
• Sunbeam designer Ivar Jepson article, part 1.
• Evolution of the Sunbeam T-20
• Collector Profiles: Paul Wellborn and Helen Greguire.
• Toaster Art by Eric Norcross

Volume 1, Number 2

• Whence This Foundation? - foundation history, part 2.
• Letters to the Editor.
• "Mr. Sunbeam," Ivar Jepson article concluded.
• Single-slice "Bachelor" Toastmaster toasters profiled.
• Collector Herbert G. Pfabe is interviewed.
• Non-profit status announced.
• Toaster Art Auction.

Volume 1, Number 3

• Profile of The Cheerie Toastove.
• Letters to the Editor.
• Collector Profile: Joe Lukach.
• Dry Toast, an essay by John Thorne of Simple Cooking, part 1.
• Kitchen Police, toaster fiction.
• Toast Art by Eric Norcross

Volume 2, Number 1

• Hotpoint Company history
• Letters to the Editor.
• Dry Toast part 2
• Collector Profile: Dan Orgill
• Toaster Art by Dan Orgill
• A Toastpoem by Kalirush Toastdancer
• Hints of a new home for the Toaster Museum.

Volume 2, Number 2

• Toasters: The Inside Story, part 1.
• Letters to the Editor.
• Understanding electricity by Professor Louis Bloomfield.
• Toastmaster Powermatic profile from a 1960 issue of Popular Science.
• News of the Foundation's move to Virginia.
• Chronology of the Toastmaster company.
• Toastmaster Toasters - When They Were Made.
• Collector Profiles: Juergen Quitzau & Charles & Thais Whippy
• The Rollicking Roly-Toaster examined.
• Update on the Hotpoint El Tosto.
• Toast Art by David Engen.

Volume 2, Number 3

• Toasters: The Inside Story part 2.
• Letters to the Editor.
• The Care & Repair of Toasters.
• News of the Museum.
• Early 1904 Simplex toasters profiled.
• A Toaster comic story by Carl Barks.
• Collector Profile: Bill & Laura Condie.
• Diary of a Toaster Designer, humor.

Volume 3, Number 1

• Single-Slot Toaster of Venus, fiction by Tracy Aileen Copeland.
• Letters to the Editor.
• Toast-O-Lator essay by Paul Lukas.
• Collector Profiles: Dan La Belle & Carol and Rodger Mueller.
• Cleaning Toasters by Dan La Belle.
• Sunbeam Model T-35 semiotics essay by Amy O'Hair.
• The King and the Toaster, fiction.
• Appliance Intelligence, fiction.
• Hello Kitty toaster profiled.
• Toasty and Warm, Like a Saddlesore, essay by James M. Knipfel.
• Talkie Toaster (from Red Dwarf) profiled.
• Toast Recipes.

Volume 3, Number 2, aka "hotfire" - The Non-Electric Issue

• Cordless Toasters, an overview of non-electric toasters.
• Letters to the Editor.
• Company Profile: Coghlan's Ltd. of Winnipeg, Canada.
• Toaster Profile: The Knoblock Toaster
• Collector Profile: Jack & Beverly Wilgus.
• Article on The Toaster Collector Association.
• Nancy & Grant Vogel of Seal Beach, CA celebrate 60 years of marriage using same toaster.
• A Memoriam to a Toaster Man: William "Red" Kruck.
• Savory Radiant Gas Toaster profiled.

Volume 3, Number 3

• Extensive article on William Hoskins, the "Grand Daddy of Heating Appliances.
• Letters to the Editor.
• Foundation Update.
• Machine Age Toasters in Consumer Reports by Bill Meehan.
• Collector Profile: Michael Sheafe or ToasterCentral.com.
• Reprints of 1930s toaster catalog ads.

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