On 8/6/2019 10:47 AM, Clare Snyder wrote:
On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 09:26:38 -0500, dpb wrote:

On 8/5/2019 3:42 PM, Clare Snyder wrote:
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 11:18:22 -0500, dpb wrote:

On 8/5/2019 8:08 AM, Bill Gill wrote:
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You'll have to work at plugging a 2 prong plug in backward.
The prongs are 2 different widths, so the plug will only
go in one way.
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That's also a (relatively) recent evolution in the history of the
electric toaster...
I had onwe from the late 40s with a polarized plug - so old it wasn't
a "pop-up"

Nothing prevented them from using the plug; was it the wide blade type
like current? I'm not sure when the polarized receptacle actually was
introduced but it wasn't until sometime in 60s it became required...
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Although polarized outlets and plugs were introduced in the 1880s,
they were not popular at first and did not become standard until the
mid-20th century. The earliest National Electric Code (NEC) that we
can find that references polarized receptacles is the 1962 edition,
which required outlets to be both grounding (3-prong) and polarized.

I think that's pretty much what I had just said...

I was curious as to what style was on a 1940s appliance--I can't recall
ever having any such until well after then...just curious as would have
required here anyway to have replace the wall socket to use the device
or use a polarized adapter because there weren't any polarized sockets
at all until folks redid the house in the late 70s/early 80s. That
could have been pretty common back then...

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