I grew up in a house built in the early 1970s that had a four burner
General Electric cooktop with a push button control mounted on the wall
behind it. Each burner had eight or so buttons to regulate its heat
output. When I visited last Thanksgiving, it was still in service.

"wff_ng_7" > wrote in
news:kDsAh.3688$Aa5.1057@trnddc01:
> I know I've lived on one or more houses as a kid that had the push
> button controls for the surface elements. The last one I remember my
> parents replaced in 1965, so the stove must have been from the 1950s
> or even late 1940s. I think push button controls were gone by the mid
> 1960s.