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The company was founded by the De'Longhi family in 1902 as a small industrial parts manufacturing workshop. [3] The company incorporated in 1950. [4] Historically a major producer of portable heaters and air conditioners, the company has expanded to include nearly every category of small domestic appliances in the food preparation and cooking, as well as household cleaning and ironing, segments.
A vacuum flask (also known as a Dewar flask, Dewar bottle or thermos) is an insulating storage vessel that slows the speed at which its contents change in temperature. It greatly lengthens the time over which its contents remain hotter or cooler than the flask's surroundings by trying to be as adiabatic as possible.
A stove-top, Italian style coffee maker A 2016-model electric coffeemaker. A coffeemaker, coffee maker or coffee machine is a cooking appliance used to brew coffee.While there are many different types of coffeemakers, the two most common brewing principles use gravity or pressure to move hot water through coffee grounds.
Pawn Stars is an American reality television series that premiered on History on July 19, 2009. The series is filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada, where it chronicles the activities at the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, a 24-hour family business operated by patriarch Richard "Old Man" Harrison, his son Rick Harrison, Rick's son Corey "Big Hoss" Harrison, and Corey's childhood friend, Austin ...
[35] [133] Gunpowder canisters were ignited to create rocket jets. [134] The wires that electrically fired the rockets also allowed one of the crew, holding a cruciform and stationed on a platform over the stage, to "fly" the model across the set. [134] The most unwieldy model was Thunderbird 2, which Meddings remembered as being "awful" to fly.
Liquid carbon dioxide is a good solvent for many lipophilic organic compounds and is used to decaffeinate coffee. [135] Carbon dioxide has attracted attention in the pharmaceutical and other chemical processing industries as a less toxic alternative to more traditional solvents such as organochlorides. It is also used by some dry cleaners for ...