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In June 2017, a Hotpoint FF175BP fridge freezer was found to have triggered the Grenfell Tower fire in London that killed 72 people. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] A total of 64,000 units of the same model were manufactured between 2006 and 2009 by Indesit under the Hotpoint brand before moving over to Whirlpool.
Commercial refrigerator and freezer units were in use for almost 40 years prior to the common home models. The freezer-over-refrigerator style had been the basic style since the 1940s, until modern, side-by-side refrigerators broke the trend. A vapor compression cycle is used in most household refrigerators, refrigerator–freezers and freezers.
On 27 November 2018, testifying to the Grenfell Tower inquiry, Dr. J. Duncan Glover, an electrical engineer, provided results [160] from his investigation which, building on results from other investigators, [161]: 4 found the fire in flat 16 likely started within the "large" fridge-freezer (Hotpoint FF175B), near its compressor.
Miele (/ ˈ m iː l ə / MEE-lə; German:) is a German manufacturer of high-end domestic appliances and commercial equipment, headquartered in Gütersloh, Ostwestfalen-Lippe.The company was founded in 1899 by Carl Miele and Reinhard Zinkann, and has always been a family-owned and family-run company. [2]
A frame from the first colour film of a live giant squid in its natural habitat, [nb 1] recorded from a manned submersible off Japan's Ogasawara Islands in July 2012. The animal (#549 on this list) is seen feeding on a 1-metre-long Thysanoteuthis rhombus (diamondback squid), which was used as bait in conjunction with a flashing squid jig. [2]
Panasonic Holdings Corporation [b] is a Japanese multinational electronics company, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.It was founded in 1918 as Matsushita Electric Housewares Manufacturing Works [c] in Fukushima, Osaka City by Kōnosuke Matsushita.