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Sheller-Globe Corporation was a U.S. auto parts manufacturer and industrial conglomerate based in Toledo, Ohio. Formed in 1966 on a heritage of much older companies, Sheller-Globe grew through the acquisition (and divesture) of many other businesses before it was acquired by United Technologies Corporation in 1989.
The Coleman Lantern is a line of pressure lamps first introduced by the Coleman Company in 1914. This led to a series of lamps that were originally made to burn kerosene or gasoline. Current models use kerosene, gasoline, Coleman fuel or propane and use one or two mantles to produce an intense white light.
The company began as a division of the Coleman Company in 1958 and was acquired by Evcon in 1990, which in turn was acquired by Johnson Controls in 1996. [70] [71] [72] Of the twelve largest American furnace brand names represented at Gas Furnace Guide, the Coleman brand received an average ranking of 3.7 out of 5 stars. [73]
L.A.'s rich cultural history is alive through the life and work of the city's unofficial poet laureate. Just ask her brother George Evans.
Coleman gas lamps were provided to play the first night football game west of the Mississippi River. [2] In 1996, the company acquired the French Campingaz. In September 2004, Jarden acquired American Household, which was the privately-held parent company of Coleman as well as other brands like Sunbeam Products, for $745.6 million in cash. [3] [4]
The G.I. pocket stove is 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (220 mm) high and 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (110 mm) in diameter, and weighs about 3 pounds (1.4 kg). It was designed to burn either leaded or unleaded automobile gasoline (sometimes referred to as "white gasoline" or pure gasoline, without lead or additives).
Hot-bulb engine (two-stroke). 1. Hot bulb. 2. Cylinder. 3. Piston. 4. Crankcase Old Swedish hot-bulb engine in action. The hot-bulb engine, also known as a semi-diesel [1] or Akroyd engine, is a type of internal combustion engine in which fuel ignites by coming in contact with a red-hot metal surface inside a bulb, followed by the introduction of air (oxygen) compressed into the hot-bulb ...
Electric Motor Chronology Selected Patents 1905, Alfred Zehden German, a feasible linear induction motor described in patent form for driving trains or lifts. U.S. patent 782,312: 1935, Hermann Kemper: German, built a working linear induction motor 1945–1949, Eric Laithwaite: British, first full-size working model of linear induction motor