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2. Casablanca Fan Company - Wikipedia

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   Casablanca Fan Company is a ceiling fan manufacturer founded in 1974. It has been a subsidiary of Hunter Fan Company since 1996, and is currently based in Memphis, Tennessee. Casablanca became known in the late 1970s for marketing their premium and luxury ceiling fans as furniture, and Casablanca continues to operate today as Hunter's luxury ...

3. Ceiling fan - Wikipedia

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   The early turn-of-the-century companies who successfully commercialized the sale of ceiling fans in the United States were what is today known as the Hunter Fan Company, Robbins & Myers, Century Electric, Westinghouse Corporation and Emerson Electric. By the 1920s, ceiling fans became commonplace in the United States and had started to take ...

4. Fan (machine) - Wikipedia

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   Five-blade or six-blade designs are rare. The materials from which the components are made, such as brass, are important factors in fan desirability. A ceiling fan is a fan suspended from the ceiling of a room. Most ceiling fans rotate at relatively low speeds and do not have blade guards because they are inaccessible and unwieldy.

5. Edison light bulb - Wikipedia

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   In the 1960s, US inventor Robert (Bob) Kyp patented a similar in appearance but flickering "electric flame" light bulb under the name Balafire [6] as well as radiometers. His flicker bulb was used in a 7-Up commercial, [ 7 ] and the company he ran since 1964, Kyp-Go, is currently the only US manufacturer of carbon-filament bulbs.

6. Lewis Howard Latimer - Wikipedia

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   Lewis Howard Latimer (September 4, 1848 – December 11, 1928) was an American inventor and patent draftsman. His inventions included an evaporative air conditioner, an improved process for manufacturing carbon filaments for electric light bulbs, and an improved toilet system for railroad cars.

7. Holiday lighting technology - Wikipedia

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   Both types, along with most of the candle-shaped ones, are pinched-off at the tip rather than the base during manufacturing. Most contemporary miniature light bulbs have an internal shunt that is intended to activate when the bulb's filament burns out. The shunt closes the circuit across the bad filament, restoring continuity, which allows the ...