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  2. Zoe Motors - Wikipedia

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    Zoe Motors' best-known product was its Zoe Zipper vehicle, a very small three-wheeled single-seat car (or "microcar") based on a 50 cc Honda motorcycle engine.It was manufactured by Mitsuoka Motors of Japan, introduced there in 1982 and made its American debut the following year in 1983, where Zoe had distribution and branding rights to the vehicle.

  3. Leaf blower - Wikipedia

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    A leaf blower, commonly known as a blower, is a device that propels air out of a nozzle to move debris such as leaves and grass cuttings. Leaf blowers are powered by electric or gasoline motors . Gasoline models have traditionally been two-stroke engines , but four-stroke engines were recently introduced to partially address air pollution concerns.

  4. Metal zipper - Wikipedia

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    A metal zipper is a zipper with its binding edges consisting of individual pieces of metal that are molded into shape and set at regular intervals on the zipper tape. Metal zippers are mainly made of brass , nickel and aluminium , and given their durability, they are mostly used in jeans, work-wear, heavy luggage and heavy-duty garments that ...

  5. Motograph News Bulletin - Wikipedia

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    The Motograph News Bulletin, also known as the Zipper, was a 380-feet-long electromechanical news ticker display that wrapped around One Times Square. [ 1 ] History

  6. Centrifugal fan - Wikipedia

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    Centrifugal fans often contain a ducted housing to direct outgoing air in a specific direction or across a heat sink; such a fan is also called a blower, blower fan, or squirrel-cage fan (because it looks like a hamster wheel). Tiny ones used in computers are sometimes called biscuit blowers. These fans move air from the rotating inlet of the ...

  7. YKK - Wikipedia

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    Closeup of a YKK zipper on blue jeans. The YKK Group (YKKグループ, Waikeikei Gurūpu) is a Japanese group of manufacturing companies. They are the world's largest zipper manufacturer, also producing other fastening products, architectural products, plastic hardware and industrial machinery.

  8. Blower - Wikipedia

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    Blower, a fish of the family Tetraodontidae; Blower (snake) (Heterodon platirhinos) Blower fan, a type of mechanical fan; Leaf blower, a gardening tool; Party blower, a device for making noises at a party. Supercharger on an internal-combustion engine; Telephone; USS Blower, a submarine of the United States Navy

  9. Zipper - Wikipedia

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    Zipper slider brings together the two sides of teeth. The popular North American term zipper (UK zip, or occasionally zip-fastener) came from the B. F. Goodrich Company in 1923. The company used Gideon Sundbäck's fastener on a new type of rubber boots (or galoshes) and referred to it as the zipper, and the name stuck. The two chief uses of the ...