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  2. Theophilus Van Kannel - Wikipedia

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    International Steel Company is the parent company of International Revolving Door Company. He invented and owned Witching Waves, an amusement ride introduced at Luna Park, Coney Island, in 1907. [2] [4] Van Kannel died in New York City of heart failure and was buried in West Park Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio. [1]

  3. Revolving door - Wikipedia

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    A revolving door in Turkey (counter-clockwise rotation) A revolving door typically consists of three or four doors that hang on a central shaft and rotate around a vertical axis within a cylindrical enclosure. To use a revolving door, a person enters the enclosure between two of the doors and then moves continuously to the desired exit while ...

  4. Kannel - Wikipedia

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    Theophilus Van Kannel (1841–1919), American who invented the revolving door Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Kannel .

  5. Witching Waves - Wikipedia

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    It was invented by Theophilus Van Kannel, who also invented the revolving door. [3] It consisted of a large oval course with a flexible metal floor. There were hidden reciprocating levers that produced a wave-like motion.

  6. The Revolving Door at the SEC

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    The revolving door also feeds employees from the private sector to the SEC, employees that former SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro said "tend to be vigorous defenders of the public interest."

  7. History of lobbying in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Another trend emerged: the revolving door. Before the mid 1970s, it was rare that a congressperson upon retirement would work for a lobbying firm and when it did occasionally happen, it "made eyebrows rise". [23]

  8. Revolving Door: DEA’s No.2 quits amid reports of previous ...

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    The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s second-in-command has quietly stepped down amid reporting by The Associated Press that he once consulted for a pharmaceutical distributor sanctioned ...

  9. Door - Wikipedia

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    A revolving door allows people to pass in both directions without colliding, and forms an airlock maintaining a seal between inside and out. A pivot door, instead of hinges, is supported on a bearing some distance away from the edge, so that there is more or less of a gap on the pivot side as well as the opening side. In some cases the pivot is ...