Mixer with a “SUNBEAM / MIXMASTER” inscription. John K. Stewart and Thomas J. Clark established the Chicago Flexible Shaft Company, which made horse trimming and sheep shearing machinery, in 1897. The firm produced its first Sunbeam branded household appliance in 1910 and changed its corporate name to Sunbeam in 1946. The firm’s head designer, Swedish immigrant Ivar Jepson and Bernard Alton Graham invented the Mixmaster mixer in 1928.
Location:
Currently not on view
Credit Line:
Gift of George Washington University, School of Pharmacy; Accession 259201 (1964)
