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From 2010 to late 2014, GE Appliances & Lighting was a sub-business under GE Home & Business Solutions. [ 12 ] On September 8, 2014, General Electric agreed to sell the company to Electrolux , a Swedish appliance manufacturer and the second-largest consumer appliance manufacturer after Whirlpool Corporation , for US$3.3 billion in cash.
The "Roast-o-Matic" enabled the cook to delay the oven start a particular number of hours. [ 10 ] In 1956, gas ranges included the "oven sentinel," a probe which could be inserted into meat and then would automatically turn off the oven when the desired temperature was reached.
The oven walls are coated with heat- and acid-resistant porcelain enamel. A self-cleaning oven is designed to stay locked until the high temperature process is completed. To prevent possible burn injuries, a mechanical interlock is used to keep the oven door locked and closed during and immediately after the high-temperature cleaning cycle ...
During the early 1970s, Aérospatiale initiated a development programme to produce a replacement for the aging Aérospatiale Alouette II. [1] While the Aérospatiale Gazelle, which had been developed in the 1960s and 1970s, had been met with numerous orders by military customers, commercial sales of the type had been less than anticipated, thus the need for a civil-oriented development was ...
On July 17, 1981, two overhead walkways in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri collapsed, killing 114 people and injuring 216. Loaded with partygoers, the concrete and glass platforms crashed onto a tea dance in the lobby.