jun 16, 1882 - June 6, 1882: Inventor Henry W. Seeley from the US patents one of the first irons to run on electricity.

Description:

Henry Seeley's iron was innovative in its design, but almost useless in reality. It functioned by connecting resistant coils in the iron to a local electricity source, heating the iron up. Once hot, the iron was disconnected from the source, used until cool, and then reconnected again. Due to the problem, however, that it cooled too rapidly, heated too slowly, and had to be consistently plugged in and out, as well as the fact that the electricity networks in America and Europe were still fledgling, Seeley's iron never really caught on with the public.