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2. NuTone - Wikipedia

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   NuTone became a publicly traded company in 1955. Other NuTone-created products included the residential kitchen ventilator hood and built-in kitchen countertop appliances. In 1967, when the Corbetts sold their interest in the company to the Scovill Manufacturing Company, [2] NuTone was the largest American producer of home electrical products.

3. Doorbell - Wikipedia

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   Doorbell mechanism from 1884 in Andrássy Avenue, Budapest Antique mechanically operated shop doorbell on a torsion spring. William Murdoch, a Scottish inventor, installed a number of his own innovations in his house, built in Birmingham in 1817; one of these was a loud doorbell, that worked using a piped system of compressed air. [1]

4. Push-button telephone - Wikipedia

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   A push-button telephone is a telephone that has buttons or keys for dialing a telephone number, in contrast to a rotary dial used in earlier telephones.. Western Electric experimented as early as 1941 with methods of using mechanically activated reeds to produce two tones for each of the ten digits and by the late 1940s such technology was field-tested in a No. 5 Crossbar switching system in ...

5. X10 (industry standard) - Wikipedia

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   X10 modules (clockwise from upper left): An original BSR lamp module, a "chime module", a recent lamp module, an outlet module. X10 is a protocol for communication among electronic devices used for home automation (domotics).

6. Nurse call button - Wikipedia

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   Pancake nurse call button for limited mobility patients A nurse call button on a pillow speaker with TV controls This hospital bed has a nurse call button on its rails. A nurse call button is a button or cord found in hospitals and nursing homes, at places where patients are at their most vulnerable, such as beside their bed and in the bathroom. [1]

7. Candle snuffer - Wikipedia

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   A candle extinguisher in use. A candle snuffer, candle extinguisher, or douter is an instrument used to extinguish burning candles, consisting of a small cone at the end of a handle.