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2. AC power plugs and sockets: British and related types

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   [53] The original BS 1363:1947 specified fuse ratings of 3 A, 7 A and 13 A. [54] The current version of the fuse standard, BS 1362:1973, allows any fuse rating up to 13 A, with 3 A (coloured red) and 13 A (coloured brown) as the preferred (but not mandated) values when used in a plug. All other ratings are to be coloured black.

3. English Electric - Wikipedia

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   English Electric took over Vulcan Foundry and Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns, [35] both with substantial railway engineering pedigrees, in 1955. English Electric produced nearly 1000 diesel and electric locomotives, of nine different classes, for British Rail as part of the Modernisation Plan in the 1950s and 1960s. Most of these classes of ...

4. General Electric Company - Wikipedia

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   The resulting company, (to become Osram in 1909), [clarification needed] was to lead the way in lamp design, and the burgeoning demand for electric lighting was to make GEC's fortune. [6] In 1900, GEC was incorporated as a public limited company, The General Electric Company (1900) Ltd (the '1900' was dropped three years later). [5]

5. Thomas E. Murray - Wikipedia

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   Thomas E. Murray (October 21, 1860 – July 21, 1929) was an American inventor and businessman who developed electric power plants for New York City as well as many electrical devices which influenced life around the world, including the dimmer switch and screw-in fuse. It has been said that he "invented everything from the power plant up to ...

6. What’s closed on national day of mourning for Jimmy Carter

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   The US will honor the late former President Jimmy Carter, who died at age 100 on December 29. President Joe Biden declared January 9 as a day of mourning in an executive order – the same day as ...

7. Giant bluefin tuna the size of a motorcycle sells for $1.3 ...

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   A 276-kilogram bluefin tuna that was auctioned for 207 million Japanese yen (about $1.3 million) is carried into an Onodera sushi restaurant after the first tuna auction of the New Year in Tokyo ...

8. 2 men stab each other during fight on Grand Central platform ...

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   Two men slashed each other as an early-morning clash turned vicious on the subway platform at Grand Central Tuesday, the latest in a rash of violence in and near the trains, police said.

9. History of AC power plugs and sockets - Wikipedia

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   Lampholder plug from 1893 GEC Ltd (London) catalogue. When electricity was first introduced into houses in the 1880s, it was primarily used for lighting. One common approach for other appliances (such as vacuum cleaners, electric fans, smoothing irons and curling tong heaters) was to connect to light bulb sockets using lampholder plugs. [1]