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The large Aristocrat model featured three ovens and two broilers, weighing 734 pounds. [4] In 1960, a built-in barbecue unit could be added to a cooktop. [8] By 1964, all O'Keefe and Merritt electric ovens had built-in clocks that could be used to turn on the oven, cook for a certain time, and then turn off the oven. [9]
Western Stove opened its factory in Culver City in 1922. [1] By 1947 Western Stove employed 720 employees on 11 acres, a significant increase from its beginnings in two small buildings with just 20 employees. [2] By 1947, it sold its appliances in eleven Western states, expanding to Texas by opening an office in May of that year. [3]
The broad usage allows for nearly any device intended for domestic use to be a home appliance, including consumer electronics as well as stoves, [5] refrigerators, toasters [5] and air conditioners. The development of self-contained electric and gas-powered appliances, an American innovation, emerged in the early 20th century.
An electric stove, electric cooker or electric range is a stove with an integrated electrical heating device to cook and bake. Electric stoves became popular as replacements for solid-fuel (wood or coal) stoves which required more labor to operate and maintain. Some modern stoves come in a unit with built-in extractor hoods.
For covered wagons there was the Class A2 wagon with a 15 t (14.8 long tons; 16.5 short tons) maximum load and 21.3 m 2 (229 sq ft) loading area built to a standard template, and the large-volume covered wagon based on template A9, also with a 15 t (14.8 long tons; 16.5 short tons) maximum load, but a 21.3 m 2 (229 sq ft) loading area.
Ovens historically have been made by either digging the heating chamber into the earth, or by building them from various materials: Earth ovens, dug into the earth and covered with non-permanent means, like leaves and soil; Masonry ovens, a term historically used for "built-up ovens", usually made of clay, adobe and cob, stone, and brick.
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That same year, approximately 350 Teamsters union employees making electric and gas ranges went on strike for one month, leading to a new 35 month contract. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] By the late 1970s, Gaffers and Sattler employed approximately 900 individuals in a large plant in the City of Industry, California .