One of the newer utensils made for kitchen use is a cordless kettle. Surprisingly, the 1980s was the first era that they started being used. It certainly caught on and became incredibly popular very quickly which is quite unusual. Way back in the stone age our ancestors almost certainly used something to heat water as one of the very first utensils.
Wrought iron was probably the most popular of materials used in the manufacture of the kettle one hundred years ago. They were used for boiling water to mix with drinks such as coffee and tea in addition to for many other things such as preparing a bath. Keeping the water heated after it had boiled was the major advantage of wrought iron as it keeps the temperature well although boiling it was quite slow.
The kitchen stove was the normal place to boil a kettle so some people called them a stovetop kettle or a stove kettle then. As tea was the commonest drink to be made from them they were sometimes known as a tea kettle.
It was sure that the electric kettle would need to be designed as soon as household electricity started to be commonplace. Although the first one was tested around 1909, they were not widely used before the 1930s onwards. The fact that just the cities and built up regions had electric available to them was the main reason for this.
The kettles and the cords joining them to the electricity supply were made of many varied materials. How far away from the supply that you could use it is a problem because of the cord length.
This was the major reason for the appearance of the cordless electric kettle. Using a bottom to join the cord to while sitting the kettle on top seems obvious now. Electrocution which was caused by the meeting of water and electricity has been almost avoided now that it can be carried any distance to be used.
Since the start of the 21st century the kettle cordless has been manufactured mainly out of stainless steel as it too holds the heat well. It is now safer to use them because it was decided to fit them with a polymer handle which does not hold the temperature hardly at all making them safer to pick up. Most kettles have now been saved from boiling over as they were fitted with a cut off switch.