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On October 12, five trainloads packed full with Maytag Washers were shipped out to the country. At this time, it was the world's largest single shipment of merchandise. Maytag broke its own record in May 1927, and shipped out eight trainloads. 1927: Maytag had produced over a million washers. 1929: Maytag realized earnings of $6,838,883, a pre ...
Maytag married Dena Bergman, and they had two sons and two daughters. He donated a 40-acre (160,000 m 2) park and swimming pool to the city of Newton, Iowa, now named Maytag Park and Maytag Pool. He built and donated the Maytag Hotel and spearheaded a theater and a water plant.
A preserved hit-and-miss engine: 1917 Amanco 21⁄4 hp (1.7 kW) 'Hired Man'. A hit-and-miss engine or Hit 'N' Miss is a type of stationary internal combustion engine that is controlled by a governor to only fire at a set speed. They are usually 4-stroke, but 2-stroke versions were also made. It was conceived in the late 19th century and ...
A worker–machine activity chart is a chart used to describe or plan the interactions between workers and machines over time. [1] As the name indicates, the chart deals with the criteria of work elements and their time for both the worker and the machine. This chart is useful to describe any repetitive worker-machine system.
A new energy label, introduced in 2010, is based on the energy efficiency index (EEI), and has energy classes in the range A+++ to D. [ 11] The EEI is a measure of the annual electricity consumption, and includes energy consumed during power-off and standby modes, and the energy consumed in 220 washing cycles.
History. GE Appliances was originally a part of General Electric, a company which began marketing a full roster of heating and cooking products in 1907. [ 7] In January 2004, it became part of GE Consumer & Industrial when GE Consumer Products (founded in 1905) merged with GE Industrial Systems (founded in 1930) to form GE Consumer & Industrial.
The most basic type of cam timer rotates continually, which is not suitable when needing to wait for events that occur at variable times. With washing machine cam timers, it is necessary to wait a variable amount of time (for example waiting for a tank of water to heat up to a preset temperature).
A washing machine (laundry machine, clothes washer, washer, or simply wash) is a machine designed to launder clothing. Modern-day home appliances use electric power to automatically clean clothes. The term is mostly applied to machines that use water as opposed to dry cleaning (which uses alternative cleaning fluids and is performed by ...