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History of Frigidaire
Frigidaire started life as the Guardian Refrigerator Company which was founded in 1916 by a group of investors and an engineer called Alfred Mellowes from Fort Wayne in Indiana. Alfred had spent the previous year working on building a refrigerator in his wash house and produced the first self contained unit. This refrigerator was more like todays as it had a compressor fixed solidly in the base of the machine, unlike all previous machines which had a separate cold box and a cooler unit that...
History of Fisher Metal Detectors
The history of fisher metal detectors begins way back in the late 1920s with a German graduate of Dresden university who had immigrated to
America. Dr Gerhard Fisher was working in Los Angeles developing direction finding equipment intended for use in aircraft and his work was
even recognized by Albert Einstein. Dr Fisher listened carefully to pilots who used his system and found that they all experienced
interference in certain areas and he explored this problem. He found that these...
Refrigerator Development History
Records show that as far back as 1,000 BC the Chinese cut ice in the winter and stored it to use in warmer weather. This method has been used extensively with ice houses being built throughout the 18th century specifically for this purpose. It is also known that in 500 BC Egyptians made use of ice by placing containers of water out on cold nights to freeze and stored for later use. The ice houses built in the 18th century were for both commercial and private use with wealthy families having...
The Founding of Tesoro Metal Detectors
Tesoroβs history began with a man called Jack Gifford who moved from retail into electronics at the start of the 60βs. Through hard work and constantly learning more about electronics he soon became an expert in this field. His first venture into management was as a founding partner and consultant engineer of phoenix data which took on a range of jobs for different companies including Motorola designing and building electronic systems. For several years Jack worked at phoenix until in 1975...
History Of The Dishwasher
The first recorded evidence of a dishwasher was from 1850 when a simple hand turned splashing device attached to a wooden tub made by Joel Houghton was given a patent. Developing on this idea L.A. Alexander added gears to a spinning rack holding dishes that allowed it to be spun inside a tub of water and this was patented in 1865. Both of these were very crude and made entirely of wood and did not actually clean dishes very well.
Josephine Cochrane was a wealthy woman and had engineering in...
Mercury Outboard Motors History
Carl Kiekhaefer had never planned to have anything to do with outboard motors when he graduated as an engineer from college. His original plan was to design and manufacture magnetic separators for use within the dairy industry. He bought a failing Cedarburg outboard engine company with financial backing from his father with the intention of using the premises to produce his magnetic separators. When he bought the company he also got 300 outboard motors that were regarded as rejects as they had...
History Of General Electric
Thomas Edison was credited with inventing the light bulb in a research laboratory he set up in 1876 and this is his major credit to fame. What most people dont know is that he was one of the main founders of the General Electric Company. Edison had by 1990 built up a number of separate business ventures and pulled them all together to make one large company called Edison General Electric. At the same time another businessman called Charles Coffin through shrewd buying of patents had also...
Pool the Games Origins
Pool is a game which was derived from billiards in the 1870s with the history of billiards never having been very clear as to its exact origins. Shakespeare mentioned billiards in his play Antony and Cleopatra in 1600 which has lead to the assumption that the game originated sometime in the 15th century. It is widely believed although no one can prove it that the game originated from the game of croquet which for those of you who have not heard about this game here is a brief...
History of Samsung
Samsung began life in South Korea being founded by Lee Byung Chull in 1938 a very hard working and ambitious man. He always approached any market that he wanted into with the attitude that his company would quickly push to top of that particular field. His business started as an export company dealing in fruit ,vegetables and dried fish and had been doing fine building up to having forty workers at his trading company in Seoul until in 1950 when the communists invaded the south. Despite...
History of Whirpool Corporations Origins
Whirlpools origins started with a life insurance salesman called Lou Upton who in 1908 put all his money into a business that was to make household appliances. This failed and Lou would never get his money back but was offered the chance to take anything that he wished from the failing business. What he took was the patents for a hand washing machine with the intention of trying to attach an electric motor to it. He worked on this for the next two years and in 1911 with his uncle Emory and a...
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