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The company was founded in 1984 by Robert Stein, Aleen Stein and Joe Medjuck, who later were joined by Roger Smith.In 1985, the Steins, William Becker and Jonathan B. Turell founded the Voyager Company [8] to publish educational multimedia CD-ROMs (1989–2000), [8] [9] and the Criterion Collection became a subordinate division of the Voyager Company, with Janus Films holding a minority stake ...
A washing machine (laundry machine, clothes washer, washer, or simply wash) is a machine designed to launder clothing. The term is mostly applied to machines that use water. Other ways of doing laundry include dry cleaning (which uses alternative cleaning fluids and is performed by specialist businesses) and ultrasonic cleaning.
A Belleville washer is a type of spring shaped like a washer. It is the shape, a cone frustum , that gives the washer its characteristic spring. The "Belleville" name comes from the inventor Julien Belleville who in Dunkerque , France, in 1867 patented a spring design which already contained the principle of the disc spring.
Barnes & Noble has teamed up with the Criterion Collection for a month-long 50% off winter sale — with all DVDs, Blu-rays and 4K Ultra HD discs marked down, sitewide. We rounded up the best ...
Whirlpool Corporation is an American multinational manufacturer and marketer of home appliances headquartered in Benton Charter Township, Michigan, United States. [2] In 2023, the Fortune 500 company had an annual revenue of approximately $19 billion in sales, around 59,000 employees, and more than 55 manufacturing and technology research centers globally.
A dishwasher containing clean dishes. A dishwasher is a machine that is used to clean dishware, cookware, and cutlery automatically. Unlike manual dishwashing, which relies on physical scrubbing to remove soiling, the mechanical dishwasher cleans by spraying hot water, typically between 45 and 75 °C (110 and 170 °F), at the dishes, with lower temperatures of water used for delicate items.
The first table lists countries by the percentage of their population with an income of less than $2.15 (the extreme poverty line), $3.65 and $6.85 US dollars a day in 2017 international PPP prices. The data is from the most recent year available from the World Bank API. [1] [2] [3]
Ethiopia's economy experienced strong, broad-based growth averaging 9.4% a year from 2010/11 to 2019/20. Ethiopia's real gross domestic product (GDP) growth slowed down to 6.1% in 2019/20 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [79] Industry, mainly construction, and services accounted for most of the growth.