31. Hoover Company Early History
June 25, 2009
The Hoover companies origins date way back to 1827 with Henry Hoover opening a tannery business close to Canton, Ohio and it was not until the early 1900s before a move into household appliances would begin. James Murray Spangler was a janitor in a Canton department store and was an asthma sufferer ...
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32. Differences Between Top and Front Loading Washing Machines
June 25, 2009
Today’s washing machines are available in two distinct types which are front and top loading and in really simple terms if your clothes go in through the front it’s a front loader and through the top or lid it’s a top loader. The popularity of these differs significantly from country to country with...
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33. Best Places For Metal Detecting
June 22, 2009
Metal detecting for some is a real passion, with people travelling far and wide to fuel their treasure hunting adventures. Some are once a week treasure hunters while others only when on holiday and then there are people who do this for a living. Metal detecting can be profitable if your finds are g...
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34. The Founding of Tesoro Metal Detectors
June 22, 2009
Tesoro’s history began with a man called Jack Gifford who moved from retail into electronics at the start of the 60”s. Through hard work and constantly learning more about electronics he soon became an expert in this field. His first venture into management was as a founding partner and consultant e...
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35. History of Fisher Metal Detectors
June 22, 2009
The history of fisher metal detectors begins way back in the late 1920s with a German graduate of Dresden university who had immigrated to America. Dr Gerhard Fisher was working in Los Angeles developing direction finding equipment intended for use in aircraft and his work was even recognized by A...
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36. Metal Detector Development
June 22, 2009
From 1870 there were various attempts to build a machine that could detect metal or ore rich rocks as this would be a great mining tool. All these attempts ended up with a clumsy power hungry device that was extremely unreliable and practically useless. No major breakthroughs were made until in 1931...
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37. Bosch Dishwasher Features
June 22, 2009
Quietness is an essential design element in a household dishwasher and bosch have made sure that their machines are among the quietest in the world. The last thing you need to hear as you try to sleep or worse still over the television is a dishwasher working away sounding like an aircraft engine. M...
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38. History Of The Dishwasher
June 22, 2009
The first recorded evidence of a dishwasher was from 1850 when a simple hand turned splashing device attached to a wooden tub made by Joel Houghton was given a patent. Developing on this idea L.A. Alexander added gears to a spinning rack holding dishes that allowed it to be spun inside a tub of wate...
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39. History of Frigidaire
June 22, 2009
Frigidaire started life as the Guardian Refrigerator Company which was founded in 1916 by a group of investors and an engineer called Alfred Mellowes from Fort Wayne in Indiana. Alfred had spent the previous year working on building a refrigerator in his wash house and produced the first self contai...
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40. History of Whirpool Corporations Origins
June 22, 2009
Whirlpools origins started with a life insurance salesman called Lou Upton who in 1908 put all his money into a business that was to make household appliances. This failed and Lou would never get his money back but was offered the chance to take anything that he wished from the failing business. Wha...
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Author: James Thompson
