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2. Ceiling fan - Wikipedia

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   Ceiling fans are usually installed in a space with other lighting fixtures, but if the fan is positioned too close to a light panel or fixture, a strobe or flicker effect may occur. A strobe or flicker effect is a phenomenon which occurs when light brightens and dims consistently as it penetrates and passes through a moving ceiling fan. [ 8 ]

3. Fanlight - Wikipedia

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   A fanlight is a form of lunette window, often semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan. [1] It is placed over another window or a doorway, [2] [3] and is sometimes hinged to a transom. The bars in the fixed glazed window spread out in the manner of a sunburst.

4. Light fixture - Wikipedia

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   Ceiling fans with built-in lights may eliminate the need for separate overhead light fixtures in a room, and light kits can also replace any ceiling-mounted light fixtures that were displaced by the installation of the ceiling fan. Emergency lighting or exit sign – connected to a battery backup or to an electric circuit that has emergency ...

5. Casablanca Fan Company - Wikipedia

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   Home-Safe, which would turn the fan's light kit on and off at random times to make an empty home look occupied. Demo Mode, an automatic demonstration/test program, which would cycle the fan and light through all of its various settings. In 1990, Casablanca introduced their second computerized ceiling fan control, called Comfort•Touch.

6. Philip Diehl (inventor) - Wikipedia

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   The fan was invented in 1882 by Schuyler Skaats Wheeler. A few years later, Philip Diehl mounted a fan blade on a sewing machine motor and attached it to the ceiling, inventing the ceiling fan, which he applied for patent in August which was granted on November 12, 1889. [5] Later, he added a light fixture to the ceiling fan.

7. Pull switch - Wikipedia

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   The most common use of a pull switch is to operate a ceiling electric light.The ceiling fan and mechanical wall fans are also appliances often operated by pull switches. . Pull switches may be either two-position (open or closed) or multi-position (allowing for different fan speeds or levels of illuminati