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  • Zanussi

    Zanussi

    Posted on February 20, 2010 | No Comments
    Founded by Antonio Zanussi in northeast Italy in 1916, Zanussi is one of the companies that helped to establish Italy’s reputation for innovative product design. Established as a leading European manufacturer of white goods (stoves, washing machines, and refrigerators), the company was acquired in 1984...

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  • Evolution of the Handled Knife

    Evolution of the Handled Knife

    Posted on January 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Evolution of the Handled KnifeThe handled knife represented the next stage in the development of cutlery. In northcentralOhio, paleo-Indians at Sheriden Cave south of the Laurentide Ice Sheet honed andflaked fluted chert scrapers, gravers, and bone cutting tools. The stone was crosshatched at one end, where...

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  • Bakelite

    Bakelite

    Posted on January 9, 2010 | No Comments
    In 1909, the formulation of a synthetic polymer resin called Bakelite—the first true plastic—greatly enhanced domestic work by offering manufacturers of kitchen utensils a strong, lightweight, nontoxic, and inexpensive material to replace wood, ceramic, horn, ivory, ebonite, and metal. Bakelite’s name honors the chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland, who also...

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  • Air conditioning

    Air conditioning

    Posted on January 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Air conditioning enables the control of indoor air quality, humidity, and temperature, allfactors that affect cookery. In ancient times, various applications of evaporation producedtentative improvement in the home environment. In India, people used evaporativecooling, suspending water-soaked grass mats in windows to cool the incoming air....

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