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  2. Kidde - Wikipedia

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    Kidde (/ ˈ k ɪ d ə / [2]) is an American multinational company that manufactures and distributes fire detection and suppression equipment, as well as smoke and CO alarm units. Kidde is one of America's largest manufacturers of smoke alarms [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and fire safety products. [ 5 ]

  3. Quickstart guide - Wikipedia

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    A quick-start guide or quickstart guide (QSG), also known as a quick reference guide (QRG), is in essence a shortened version of a manual, meant to make a buyer familiar with their product as soon as possible. This implies the use of a concise step-based approach that allows the buyer to use a product without any delay, if necessary including ...

  4. Fire extinguisher - Wikipedia

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    Red with a blue panel above the operating instructions A: B: C: E: Carbon dioxide, CO 2: Black: Red with a black panel above the operating instructions B: E: Wet chemical Yellow (not in use) Red with a canary yellow panel above the operating instructions A (B) F Class D powder French blue: Red with a blue panel above the operating instructions ...

  5. Walter Kidde - Wikipedia

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    Walter Kidde (/ ˈ k ɪ d ə /; March 7, 1877 – February 9, 1943) was an American businessman. He was the owner of the Kidde company which manufactured fire extinguishers . His parents immigrated to the United States from Bohemia .

  6. Carbon monoxide detector - Wikipedia

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    A Kidde plug-in carbon monoxide detector. A carbon monoxide detector or CO detector is a device that detects the presence of the carbon monoxide (CO) gas to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning. In the late 1990s, Underwriters Laboratories changed the definition of a single station CO detector with a sound device to carbon monoxide (CO) alarm.

  7. QuickStart - Wikipedia

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    QuickStart is a loading method used by several different software applications, designed to speed up the loading time of their software.Some load the core files and libraries during computer startup and allows the applications to start more quickly when selected later.

  8. Fairey Aviation Company - Wikipedia

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    The company became Williams Fairey Engineering in 1986, and was then taken over by the Kidde portion of the American United Technologies Corporation. in 2000, and became now known as WFEL Ltd. In 2006 the Manchester Evening News reported that private equity investors Dunedin Capital Partners backed a management buy-out of WFEL from UTC which ...

  9. ThrustSSC - Wikipedia

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    The jet was driven by Royal Air Force fighter pilot Wing Commander Andy Green in the Black Rock Desert in the US state of Nevada.It was powered by two afterburning Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engines, as used in the British version of the F-4 Phantom II jet fighter.