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2. Windscreen wiper - Wikipedia

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   Anderson's 1903 window cleaner design. American inventor Mary Anderson is popularly credited with devising the first operational windscreen wiper in 1903. [3] [4] In Anderson's patent, she called her invention a "window cleaning device" for electric cars and other vehicles. Operated via a lever from inside a vehicle, her version of windscreen ...

3. Plasma window - Wikipedia

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   This property is the key to the plasma window's usefulness – the technology of the plasma window allows radiation that can only be generated in a vacuum to be applied to objects in an atmosphere. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Electron-beam welding is a major application of plasma windows, making it practical outside a hard vacuum.

4. Vacuum cleaner - Wikipedia

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   A hand-powered pneumatic vacuum cleaner, c. 1910. An early electric-powered model is also shown. The first vacuum-cleaning device to be portable and marketed at the domestic market was built in 1905 by Walter Griffiths, a manufacturer in Birmingham, England. [13]

5. Power window - Wikipedia

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   Inside driver's door showing hydraulic cylinder for power window Window controls on center console between front seats (2005 Saab 9-5) Packard had introduced hydraulic window lifts (power windows) in fall of 1940, for its new 1941 Packard 180 series cars. [1] [2] This was a hydro-electric system.

6. Smart glass - Wikipedia

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   Smart glass, also known as switchable glass, dynamic glass, and smart-tinting glass, is a type of glass that can change its optical properties, becoming opaque or tinted, in response to electrical or thermal signals.

7. Photomultiplier tube - Wikipedia

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   They are members of the class of vacuum tubes, more specifically vacuum phototubes. These detectors multiply the current produced by incident light by as much as 100 million times or 10 8 (i.e., 160 dB), [1] in multiple dynode stages, enabling (for example) individual photons to be detected when the incident flux of light is low.