Editing Hotpoint (section)

=== Pacific Electric Heating Company ===
The company name Hotpoint comes from the ''hot point'' of the innovative first [[Iron (appliance)|electric iron]].  Invented by American, Earl Richardson (''1871–1934'') in 1905, he subsequently formed his Pacific Electric Heating Co. in [[Ontario, California|Ontario]], California, in 1906.<ref>{{cite news|title=Earl H. Richardson|publisher=Harvard Business School|url=http://www.hbs.edu/leadership/database/leaders/earl_h_richardson.html|access-date=8 February 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=First Hotpoint iron|publisher=Streamlined Irons|url=http://streamlinedirons.com/pages/Irons%2018.pdf|access-date=8 February 2011|archive-date=16 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716153538/http://streamlinedirons.com/pages/Irons%2018.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> The device became known as the Hotpoint iron, with its hottest point at the front and not the center.