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  2. NEMA connector - Wikipedia

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    The adaptor was screwed into the lightbulb socket, leaving a flat face with two holes to conveniently attach the plug. The same patent had a second design, with a wall attachable receptacle, capable of receiving the same plug, thus being the first socket and plug design patented in the US.

  3. Three-prong adaptor - Wikipedia

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    Three-prong adaptor. A cheater plug, with metal grounding tab (lower right). The ground tab is designed to be attached to the outlet faceplate screw, which is supposed to be connected to the building electrical ground. A cheater plug, AC ground lifter or three-prong/two-prong adapter is an adapter that allows a NEMA 5-15P grounding -type plug ...

  4. AC power plugs and sockets - Wikipedia

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    The NEMA 5-15 plug has two flat parallel blades like NEMA 1-15, and a ground (earth) pin. [46] It is rated 15 A at 125 volts. The ground pin is longer than the line and neutral blades, such that an inserted plug connects to ground before power. The ground hole is officially D-shaped, although some round holes exist.

  5. Europlug - Wikipedia

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    Europlug. The Europlug is a flat, non-rewirable two-pole, round-pin domestic AC power plug, rated for voltages up to 250 V and currents up to 2.5 A. [1] It is a compromise design intended to connect low-power Class II appliances safely to the many different forms of round-pin domestic power socket used across Europe.

  6. DC connector - Wikipedia

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    DC connector. A DC connector (or DC plug, for one common type) is an electrical connector that supplies direct current (DC) power. Compared to domestic AC power plugs and sockets, DC connectors have many more standard types that are not interchangeable. The dimensions and arrangement of DC connectors can be chosen to prevent accidental ...

  7. History of AC power plugs and sockets - Wikipedia

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    Figures 2 and 4 of this patent show an adaptor plugged into what appears to be a "Chapman" receptacle. [3] Hubbell evidently soon found the round pin design unsatisfactory as a subsequent U.S. patent 774,251 filed on May 27, 1904 shows lampholder adaptors similar to those of his first patent for use with plugs having coplanar (tandem) flat pins.