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A modern Finnish sauna. A sauna (/ ˈ s ɔː n ə, ˈ s aʊ n ə /, [1] [2] Finnish: [ˈsɑu̯nɑ]) is a room or building designed as a place to experience dry or wet heat sessions or an establishment with one or more of these facilities.
[1] [4] Infrared saunas differ from other types of sauna such as traditional Finnish saunas mainly in the method of heat delivery. Far infrared light, which is emitted in an infrared sauna at a wavelength of around 10 μm, is felt directly by the body in the form of radiated heat without the need to heat the air around the body first. [5]
Clothes steamer. A clothes steamer, also called a garment steamer or simply a steamer, is a device used for quickly removing wrinkles from garments and fabrics with the use of high temperature steam. [1] They can for example be used to straighten wrinkles on shirts by releasing tension in the fabric so that it straightens itself. Steamers can ...
Steam humidifiers, or warm mist humidifiers, are equipped with a heating element. A medicated inhalant can also be added to the steam vapor to help reduce cough. Vaporizers may be healthier than cool mist types of humidifiers because steam is less likely to convey mineral impurities or microorganisms from the standing water in the reservoir. [ 16 ]
Stanley Steemer was founded by Jack Bates in Columbus, Ohio in 1947 as the Jack Bates Carpet Cleaning Company. [1] [2] In 1970, Jack's son Wesley graduated from Wittenberg University and went to work with his father.
The first steam-powered ship, Pyroscaphe, was a paddle steamer powered by a double-acting steam engine; [6] it was built in France in 1783 by Marquis Claude de Jouffroy and his colleagues as an improvement of an earlier attempt, the 1776 Palmipède.