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Holmes Products was founded by Jordan Kahn in 1982. [ 1][ 2] In 2005, Berkshire Partners, Holmes' parent company, sold Holmes Products to Jarden Corporation for US$ 625.9 million. At the time of the sale, the brands of Holmes included Rival (acquired in 1999 [ 3] ), Crock-Pot, Bionaire and White Mountain. [ 2]
A desoldering pump, colloquially known as a solder sucker, is a manually-operated device which is used to remove solder from a printed circuit board. There are two types: the plunger style and bulb style. [1] (. An electrically-operated pump for this purpose would usually be called a vacuum pump.)
Humidifier. A humidifier is a household appliance or device designed to increase the moisture level in the air within a room or an enclosed space. It achieves this by emitting water droplets or steam into the surrounding air, thereby raising the humidity. Humidifier in an art museum in Augsburg, Germany.
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A portion of a static wick on an aircraft. Note the two sharp metal micropoints and the protective yellow plastic. The first static wicks were developed by a joint Army-Navy team led by Dr. Ross Gunn of the Naval Research Laboratory and fitted onto military aircraft during World War II.
The Adventure of the Gloria Scott. The Adventure of the Reigate Squire. " The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual " is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. The story was originally published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in May 1893, and in Harper's Weekly in the United States on 13 ...
Running time. 52 minutes. Original release. Network. TF1. Release. 11 April 2024. (2024-04-11) Mademoiselle Holmes is a French television series, inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Augusta Mary Anne Holmès (16 December 1847 – 28 January 1903) was a French composer of Irish descent. In 1871, Holmès became a French national and added the accent to her last name. [1] She wrote the texts to almost all of her vocal music herself, including songs, oratorios, the libretto of her opera La Montagne noire and the programmatic ...