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  2. George Ballas - Wikipedia

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    Ballas got the idea for the trimmer while driving through an automatic car wash, where the rotating brushes gave him an idea. Using a tin can laced with fishing line and an edge trimmer, he tried out his idea, which worked. After some refinements, he shopped it around to several tool makers, who all rejected his invention.

  3. String trimmer - Wikipedia

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    A string trimmer, also known by the portmanteau strimmer and the trademarks Weedwacker, Weed Eater and Whipper Snipper, [1] [a] is a garden power tool for cutting grass, small weeds, and groundcover. It uses a whirling monofilament line instead of a blade, which protrudes from a rotating spindle at the end of a long shaft topped by a gasoline ...

  4. Weed Eater - Wikipedia

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    Weed Eater is a string trimmer company founded in 1971 in Houston, Texas by George C. Ballas, Sr., the inventor of the device. The idea for the Weed Eater trimmer came to him from the spinning nylon bristles of an automatic car wash. He thought that he could come up with a similar technique to protect the bark on trees that he was trimming around.

  5. Winding machine - Wikipedia

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    Toilet-tissue winders are able to change over at running speed, while paper and board winders need to stop the winding process in order to cut the sheet and glue the paper on to a new wind-up core. Top-line winders introduce the paper core through a maintenance pit downstairs, with web interruption time as low as 15 seconds.

  6. Ego depletion - Wikipedia

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    Ego depletion is the idea that self-control or willpower draws upon conscious mental resources that can be taxed to exhaustion when in constant use with no reprieve (with the word "ego" used in the psychoanalytic sense rather than the colloquial sense). [1]

  7. Ego death - Wikipedia

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    Ego death is a "complete loss of subjective self-identity". [1] The term is used in various intertwined contexts, with related meanings. The 19th-century philosopher and psychologist William James uses the synonymous term "self-surrender", and Jungian psychology uses the synonymous term psychic death, referring to a fundamental transformation of the psyche. [2]

  8. Ego psychology - Wikipedia

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    The ego was still organized around conscious perceptual capacities, yet it now had unconscious features responsible for repression and other defensive operations. Freud's ego at this stage was relatively passive and weak; he described it as the helpless rider on the id's horse, more or less obliged to go where the id wished to go. [4]

  9. Ego-state therapy - Wikipedia

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    Ego state therapy is a parts-based psychodynamic approach to treat various behavioural and cognitive problems within a person. It uses techniques that are common in group and family therapy , but with an individual patient, to resolve conflicts that manifest in a "family of self" within a single individual.