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  2. GE Appliances - Wikipedia

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    12,000, including 6,000 at Appliance Park. Website. geappliancesco .com. Footnotes / references. [2] GE Appliances is an American home appliance manufacturer based in Louisville, Kentucky. It has been majority owned by multinational home appliances company Haier since 2016. [3] It is one of the largest appliance companies in the United States ...

  3. Apparatchik - Wikipedia

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    Apparatchik. An apparatchik ( Russian: аппара́тчик) was a full-time, professional functionary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union or the Soviet government apparat ( аппарат, apparatus), someone who held any position of bureaucratic or political responsibility, with the exception of the higher ranks of management called ...

  4. Jurassic Park - Wikipedia

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    Jurassic Park, later also referred to as Jurassic World, is an American science fiction media franchise created by Michael Crichton and centered on a disastrous attempt to create a theme park of cloned dinosaurs.

  5. Geiger counter - Wikipedia

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    The sound of a geiger counter. A Geiger counter ( / ˈɡaɪɡər /, GY-gər; [1] also known as a Geiger–Müller counter or G-M counter) is an electronic instrument used for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation. It is widely used in applications such as radiation dosimetry, radiological protection, experimental physics and the nuclear ...

  6. Videocassette recorder - Wikipedia

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    A typical late-model Philips Magnavox, VHS format VCR A close-up process of how the magnetic tape in a VHS cassette is being pulled from the cassette shell to the head drum of the VCR

  7. Gas tungsten arc welding - Wikipedia

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    Tungsten arc welding. Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW, also known as tungsten inert gas welding or TIG, and heliarc welding when helium is used) is an arc welding process that uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode to produce the weld.

  8. Coffeemaker - Wikipedia

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    Coffeemaker. A coffeemaker, coffee maker or coffee machine is a cooking appliance used to brew coffee. While there are many different types of coffeemakers, the two most common brewing principles use gravity or pressure to move hot water through coffee grounds. In the most common devices, coffee grounds are placed into a paper or metal filter ...

  9. Nikon F3 - Wikipedia

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    The Nikon F3 was Nikon 's third professional single-lens reflex camera body, preceded by the F and F2. Introduced in March 1980, it had manual and semi-automatic exposure control whereby the camera would select the correct shutter speed (aperture priority automation). The Nikon F3 series cameras had the most model variations of any Nikon F camera.