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Kitchen and Bathroom Faucets; Bathroom accessories; Hansgrohe products have been awarded several design awards, including the prestigious iF Design Award 2016, [8] the red dot design award: product design 2016 [9] and the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2012. Hansgrohe has registered about 2500 patents until the end of 2015.
The company started as a ferric hardware factory in 1911 under the name Berkenhoff & Paschedag, located in Hemer, Germany; it was taken over by Friedrich Grohe in 1936, who focused on sanitary faucets only. Before that, Friedrich used to work for his father's company Hansgrohe, founded in 1901. The first order from outside of Germany came in 1938.
When an aerator is added to the faucet (or fluid stream), there is a region of high pressure created behind the aerator. Because of the higher pressure behind the aerator and the low pressure in front of it (outside the faucet), due to Bernoulli's principle there is an increase in velocity of the fluid flow.
Faucet is the most common term in the US, similar in use to "tap" in British English, e.g. "water faucet" (although the term "tap" is also used in the US). Spigot is used by professionals in the trade (such as plumbers), and typically refers to an outdoor fixture.
While working for Adidas, Starck set up his first industrial design company, Starck Product, which he later renamed Ubik [5] after Philip K. Dick's novel.For this company, he built relationships with manufacturers across Europe including: Driade, [6] Alessi, and Kartell, in Italy, Drimmer in Austria, Vitra in Switzerland, and Disform and Andreu World [7] in Spain.
The following is a list of episodes of the public television cooking show America's Test Kitchen in the United States. The program started with 13 shows in 2001, its first season. [1] Beginning with the second season (2002), the show grew to 26 episodes per season.