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2. Joel Spira (businessman) - Wikipedia

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   Joel Solon Spira (March 1, 1927 – April 8, 2015) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and business magnate.. He invented a version of the light-dimmer switch for use in homes around the United States and led his Lutron Electronics Company into the production of lighting controllers.

3. Dimmer - Wikipedia

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   When the dimmer is at 50% power, the switches are switching their highest voltage (>325 V in Europe) and the sudden surge of power causes the coils on the inductor to move, creating a buzzing sound associated with some types of dimmer; this same effect can be heard in the filaments of the incandescent lamps as "singing". The suppression ...

4. Light switch - Wikipedia

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   Two light switches in one box. The switch on the right is a dimmer switch. The switch box is covered by a decorative plate. The first light switch employing "quick-break technology" was invented by John Henry Holmes in 1884 in the Shieldfield district of Newcastle upon Tyne. [1]

5. Sonny Smart, father of Georgia head coach Kirby Smart, dies ...

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   Sonny Smart, the father of Georgia head football coach Kirby mart, died early Saturday morning, the school announced. Sonny Smart fell while walking in New Orleans on New Year's Eve and fractured ...

6. Washington moves to boost crackdown on China Telecom's US ...

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   WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Commerce Department is moving to further crack down on China Telecom's U.S. unit over concerns it could exploit access to American data through their U.S. cloud and ...

7. Facing terror designations and sanctions, Syria’s new rulers ...

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   As of 2022, poverty was affecting 69% of Syria’s population, according to the World Bank. Extreme poverty affected more than one in four Syrians in 2022, the World Bank said, adding that this ...

8. DIP switch - Wikipedia

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   Eight switches offer 256 (2 8) combinations, which is equivalent to one byte. A tri-state type DIP switch can be in one of three positions (+, 0, −) which allows more codes than a binary DIP switch. For example, 8 pole tri-state DIP switches offer 6,561 (3 8) combinations/codes compared to 8 pole binary switches' 256 (2 8) combinations/codes ...

9. Dolphins' frustrated Tyreek Hill appears to indicate he wants ...

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   A frustrated Tyreek Hill might want out of Miami. The star wide receiver appeared to indicate after the Dolphins' 32-20 loss to the New York Jets on Sunday that he could want to play elsewhere ...