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2. Ceiling fan - Wikipedia

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   The Emerson "Heat Fan", the first ceiling fan to use a stack motor A close-up of the dropped flywheel on a FASCO "Charleston" ceiling fan Stack-motor ceiling fans. In the late 1970s, due to rising energy costs prompted by the energy crisis , Emerson adapted their "K63" motor, commonly used in household appliances and industrial machinery, to be ...

3. Philip Diehl (inventor) - Wikipedia

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   The fan was invented in 1882 by Schuyler Skaats Wheeler. A few years later, Philip Diehl mounted a fan blade on a sewing machine motor and attached it to the ceiling, inventing the ceiling fan, which he applied for patent in August which was granted on November 12, 1889. [5] Later, he added a light fixture to the ceiling fan.

4. Emerson Electric - Wikipedia

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   Emerson Electric Co. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Fortune 500 company delivers a range of engineering services, manufactures industrial automation equipment, climate control systems, and precision measurement instruments, and provides software engineering solutions for ...

5. Fan (machine) - Wikipedia

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   Five-blade or six-blade designs are rare. The materials from which the components are made, such as brass, are important factors in fan desirability. A ceiling fan is a fan suspended from the ceiling of a room. Most ceiling fans rotate at relatively low speeds and do not have blade guards because they are inaccessible and unwieldy.

6. Casablanca Fan Company - Wikipedia

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   In 1979, Casablanca introduced their Silent-Flex flywheel to replace the milled-aluminum flywheels they had been using prior. The Silent-Flex flywheel was a double-torus made of soft rubber with die-cast zinc reinforcements that acted as a shock absorber to virtually eliminate the transmission of vibration and noise from the fan's motor to the blades.

7. Talk:Ceiling fan - Wikipedia

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   "The Fan Book" is the one and only book written solely about ceiling fans; and there are no other books in the Library of Congress database which even have a section on ceiling fan history, evolution, or anything like that. Unfortunately, it's kind of a specialized subject area.