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  2. Washing machine - Wikipedia

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    Several manufacturers produced semi-automatic machines, requiring the user to intervene at one or two points in the wash cycle. A common semi-automatic type (available from Hoover in the UK until at least the 1970s) included two tubs: one with an agitator or impeller for washing, plus another smaller tub for water extraction or centrifugal rinsing.

  3. Automatic Centre - Wikipedia

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    Automatic Centre is the oldest appliance and electronics retail store in the Philippines. [1] Started in 1948 by Benito Lim, the company had grown from a single store to a multiple store and multiple format retail operation.

  4. Whirlpool Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Whirlpool Corporation is an American multinational manufacturer and marketer of home appliances headquartered in Benton Charter Township, Michigan, United States. [2] In 2023, the Fortune 500 company had an annual revenue of approximately $19 billion in sales, around 59,000 employees, and more than 55 manufacturing and technology research centers globally.

  5. Akai - Wikipedia

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    Each channel strip included dbx type-1 noise reduction and semi-parametric equalizers (with fixed bandwidths). The unit also featured innovations like an electronic 2-bus system, a 12-stereo channel patch bay, and automatic punch in and out capabilities, among others. The unique transport design and noise reduction gave these units a recording ...

  6. Laundry - Wikipedia

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    Laundry is hung to dry above an Italian street. A self-service laundry in Paris Laundry in the river in Abidjan, 2006. Laundry is the washing of clothing and other textiles, [1] and, more broadly, their drying and ironing as well.

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  8. List of generic and genericized trademarks - Wikipedia

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    Westinghouse trademark, registered in the U.S. in the 1940s (automatic washing machine) and 1950s (coin laundry) but now expired. Linoleum Floor covering, [ 22 ] originally coined by Frederick Walton in 1864, and ruled as generic following a lawsuit for trademark infringement in 1878; probably the first product name to become a generic term.

  9. History of advertising - Wikipedia

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    A dramatic example of how advertising nudged the Italian middle-class into modern consumer society appears in the heavily advertised automatic washing machine. It appeared on the Italian market in 1958 and by 1965, 23% of families had purchased one, reaching 42% by 1970.