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  2. McGraw Electric - Wikipedia

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    He sold his interests in the company to McGraw Electric in 1929. Waters and Genter remained in charge of the toastmaster division until 1938. [7] McGraw Electric grew steadily through acquisitions. [2] McGraw used to say, "Never buy a company unless it is making money or seems about to go broke," a philosophy that served him well. [7]

  3. McGraw-Edison - Wikipedia

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    McGraw-Edison Co. was created in 1957 when the McGraw Electric Company acquired Thomas A. Edison, Inc. [2] Charles Edison became board chairman of the merged company until he retired in 1961. Max McGraw was chief operating executive. [1] In March 1957, McGraw-Edison acquired Griswold Manufacturing. Griswold manufactured cast-iron cookware and ...

  4. Air compressor - Wikipedia

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    Air compressor supplies air into a nail gun.. An air compressor is a machine that takes ambient air from the surroundings and discharges it at a higher pressure. It is an application of a gas compressor and a pneumatic device that converts mechanical power (from an electric motor, diesel or gasoline engine, etc.) into potential energy stored in compressed air, which has many uses.

  5. Compressed air - Wikipedia

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    Compressed air is an important medium for the transfer of energy in industrial processes and is used for power tools such as air hammers, drills, wrenches, and others, as well as to atomize paint, to operate air cylinders for automation, and can also be used to propel vehicles. Brakes applied by compressed air made large railway trains safer ...

  6. Rotary-screw compressor - Wikipedia

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    Principal view of the pumping action of a twin-screw pump with a six-lobe female screw and a five-lobe male screw. A compressor (as opposed to a pump) would be shaped the same way, except that the shape of the lobes would change along the length of the screw, so that the volume of the trapped pockets would get squeezed smaller as they get closer to the exhaust port.

  7. Max McGraw - Wikipedia

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    Max McGraw was born in Clear Lake, Iowa on 1 February 1883, and grew up in Sioux City, Iowa.As a youth he became fascinated with electricity. While at high school he enrolled in a correspondence course in electrical engineering and organized an amateur telegraph circuit linking the homes of fourteen of his friends.