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The "Stab-Lok” circuit breaker and panel produced by Federal Pacific Electric (FPE) installed in hundreds of thousands of homes in the Bay Area may cause house fires, according decades of documentation and electrical experts interviewed by the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit.
1980: Reliance Electric engineers identify flaws in the Stab-Lok line in June, and halts distribution of the product in July. The devices are listed as meeting Underwriter Laboratories (UL) specifications, but fail some UL-specified tests. Reliance files suit in federal court to undo the sales or to receive $450 million in damages. [35]
GE-400 systems had a word length of 24 bits which could contain binary data, four six-bit BCD characters, three eight-bit characters or four signed decimal digits. GE-400 systems had magnetic-core memory with a cycle time of 2.7 microseconds (435) or 5.1 microseconds (425). The 425 and 435 had memory of 32k (32,768) words and 64k (65,536) words ...
* Note: two versions: one contained a 16-cylinder 7HDL, co-developed by GE and the German firm Deutz-MWM, rated at 6000 HP; the other a 16-cylinder 7FDL rated at 4390 HP. The units equipped with the 7FDL were a sub-version AC6000 "Convertible" and were produced to get the type into operation while the 7HDL was developed.
GE Capital Rail Services, also known as GE Railcar, or GE Railcar Services Corporation was a business unit of GE Capital, a division of General Electric. It was a distinct business unit from General Electric's railway locomotive manufacturer. GE Rail Services leased-out and managed railcars (freight cars) for the North American market.
General Electric in Schenectady, New York, aerial view, 1896 Plan of Schenectady plant, 1896 [18] General Electric Building at 570 Lexington Avenue, New York. During 1889, Thomas Edison (1847–1931) had business interests in many electricity-related companies, including Edison Lamp Company, a lamp manufacturer in East Newark, New Jersey; Edison Machine Works, a manufacturer of dynamos and ...
The term "decal" refers to the mass-produced art transfer in two different states: 1. As manufactured, which consists of the artwork printed on the upper side of a paper or film label stock, temporarily affixed by a typically water or heat soluble adhesive to the upper side of a silicone- or other release agent-coated paper or film backing stock.
Quarter glass is also sometimes called a valence window. [2] This window may be set on hinges and is then also known as a vent window, wing window, wing vent window, or a fly window. Most often found on older vehicles on the front doors, it is a small roughly triangular glass in front of and separate from the main window that rotates inward ...