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Ahearn and Warren Y. Soper were owners of Ottawa's Chaudiere Electric Light and Power Company. [4] The electric stove was showcased at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, where an electrified model kitchen was shown. Unlike the gas stove, the electrical stove was slow to catch on, partly due to the unfamiliar technology, and the need for cities ...
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The cooker was introduced to the United Kingdom in 1929, and was manufactured there under licence in the early 1930s. [3] Its popularity in certain parts of British society (owners of medium to large country houses ) led to the coining of the term ' AGA saga ' in the 1990s, referring to a genre of fiction set amongst stereotypical upper-middle ...
In Ireland, the retail sector provides one of the largest sources of employment in the economy, representing over 12% of the workforce. [1] As of 2017, approximately 40,000 wholesale and retail businesses employed almost 280,000 people in Ireland, [2] [1] with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment reporting that 90% of these businesses were Irish-owned.
GlenDimplex (formerly known as Glen Electric) is an Irish consumer electrical goods firm headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. The company is privately held, with manufacturing and development centres in the Republic of Ireland , the United Kingdom, China and many other locations around the world.
Safeway Stores (Ireland) was a supermarket chain that operated in Northern Ireland between 1996 and 2005. 12 of the 13 stores were acquired by Asda, itself owned by Walmart; whilst the remaining store was sold to Mr John Miskelly and Mrs Helen Miskelly. Despite its name, it did not operate any interests in the Republic of Ireland.
A 1956 advertisement for Toshiba's world's first automatic electric rice cooker, priced at 3,200 yen and capable of cooking 900 grams (2.0 lb) of rice. The NJ-N1, developed by Mitsubishi Electric in 1923, was the first electric rice cooker, a direct ancestor of today's automatic electric rice cookers. At that time, electricity was not widely ...
Hydro-electric 1 × 4 MW 1 × 10/38kV, 5,000 kVA 1959 Ferbane Offaly 60 Peat 3 × 20 MW 3 × 10/110kV, 75,000 kVA 123,043 1957 Gweedore Donegal 5 Peat 1 × 5 MW 1 × 10/38kV, 5,000 kVA 343 1957 Lanesborough Longford 20 Peat 1 × 20 MW 1 × 10/110kV, 22,500 kVA 1958 Marina CC [10] Cork 90-120 Originally coal and oil, then gas 1954