

In 1908 Herbert Johnston, an engineer for the Hobart Manufacturing Company, invented an electric standing mixer.
Domestic electric mixers were rarely used before the 1920s, when they were adopted more widely for home use. The Hobart KitchenAid and Sunbeam Mixmaster (first produced 1910) were two very early US brands of electric mixer. Patent 330,829 The Hobart Manufacturing Company was an early manufacturer of large commercial mixers, and they say a new model introduced in 1914 played a key role in the mixer part of their business.

The first mixer with electric motor is thought to be the one invented by American Rufus Eastman in 1885. Whisking egg whites with a handheld electric mixer
