Lloyd Groff Copeman
ABOUT LLOYD GROFF COPEMAN
Prolific inventor who created the electric stove, a rubber ice-cube tray, and a new kind of thermostat.
He grew up on a family farm and attended Michigan Agricultural College.
He was known as an inventor with a sense of humor. He installed a remote-controlled paddle in a toilet to smack unsuspecting sitters.
He married his childhood sweetheart Hazel Berger. Linda Ronstadt was one of his grandchildren.
His patented toasters improved on the ones sold by George Westinghouse 's company by automatically turning the toast.