Alan Macmasters

For more than a decade a prankster spun a web of deception about the inventor of the electric toaster. WEB On 6 February 2012 photography and ICT student Alan MacMasters was at a university lecture where the class was warned not to use Wikipedia as a. WEB Last year the BBC interviewed a man called Alan MacMasters who the world generally believed invented the toaster in. WEB You should read the original story but in case you want a synopsis here goes Until recently the Wikipedia entry for toasters stated. WEB Back in 2011 this anonymous prankster turned to Wikipedia to attribute the invention of the toaster to their university pal named Alan..