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Hair being styled with a crimping iron in a salon. Hair crimping is a method of styling usually straight, long hair so that it becomes wavy, often in a sawtooth / zig-zag fashion. In the Southern United States , it is usually referred to as crimping, but also can be called crinkles or deep waves.
A hot roller or hot curler is designed to be heated in an electric chamber before one rolls it into the hair. [2] Alternatively, a hair dryer heats the hair after the rolls are in place. Hair spray can temporarily fix curled hair in place. In 1930, Solomon Harper created the first electrically heated hair rollers, then creating a better design ...
1925 braiding machine in action The smallest braiding machine consists of two horn gears and three bobbins. This produces a flat, 3-strand braid. A braiding machine is a device that interlaces three or more strands of yarn or wire to create a variety of materials, including rope, reinforced hose, covered power cords, and some types of lace.
The US National Electrical Code permitted the use of the supply neutral wire as the equipment enclosure connection to ground from 1947 to 1996 for ranges (including separate cooktops and ovens) and from 1953 to 1996 for clothes dryers, whether plug-in or permanently fixed, provided that the circuit originated in the main service panel. Normal ...
The extremely dry soil conditions would have required hundreds of feet of rods to be driven into the earth to create a low impedance ground to protect the buildings from lightning strikes. In 1942, Herbert G. Ufer was a consultant working for the U.S. Army. Ufer was given the task of finding a lower cost and more practical alternative to ...
MADISON, Wis. — A "combination of factors" motivated the deadly shooting at a private Christian school in Wisconsin that killed two people and injured six others, Madison police said Tuesday.
For Doty, a cancer survivor whose husband died in April of kidney failure, the weight loss has meant she can be more active with her 6-year-old daughter, Freedom.
Technology stocks led a broad rally on Wall Street Tuesday during a holiday-shortened trading session ahead of Christmas. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.9%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq ...