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The origins of Electrolux are closely tied to the vacuum, but today it also makes major appliances. Vacuum cleaner designed by Lurelle Guild c. 1937 Brooklyn Museum. Electrolux made an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange in 1928 (it was delisted in 2010) [8] and another on the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1930. [9] [10]
Kelvinator ad from 1920 Kelvinator refrigerator, c. 1926. The enterprise was established on September 18, 1914, in Detroit, Michigan, United States, by engineer Nathaniel B. Wales, who introduced his idea for a practical electric refrigeration unit for the home to Edmund Copeland and Arnold Goss.
In 2001, Electrolux sold most of its leisure products line to the venture-capital company EQT which created Dometic as a stand-alone company. Dometic still sold absorption fridges as of 2021. [2] In 1926, Albert Einstein and his former student Leó Szilárd proposed an alternative design known as the Einstein refrigerator. [3]
The Hoover Company is a home appliance company founded in Ohio, United States, in 1908.It also established a major base in the United Kingdom, where it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry during most of the 20th century, to the point where the Hoover brand name became synonymous with vacuum cleaners and vacuuming in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Electrolux Professional AB is a Swedish multinational professional appliance manufacturing company, headquartered in Stockholm. Originally formed as a division and later subsidiary of Electrolux , it was spun-off in March 2020.
Food in a refrigerator with its door open. A refrigerator, commonly shortened to fridge, is a commercial and home appliance consisting of a thermally insulated compartment and a heat pump (mechanical, electronic or chemical) that transfers heat from its inside to its external environment so that its inside is cooled to a temperature below the room temperature. [1]
In June 2017, a Hotpoint FF175BP fridge freezer was found to have triggered the Grenfell Tower fire in London that killed 72 people. [14] [15] A total of 64,000 units of the same model were manufactured between 2006 and 2009 by Indesit under the Hotpoint brand before moving over to Whirlpool. [16]
By the late 1990s and the early 2000s, the idea of connecting home appliances to the Internet (Internet of Things) had been popularized and was seen as the "next big thing" [6]. The proposed idea of a smart fridge that could keep track of its contents with "a bar-code reader within the fridge" had become popular in various technology newspapers ...