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X10 (industry Standard)
X10 is a protocol for communication among electronic devices used for home automation (''domotics''). It primarily uses electric power transmission, power line wiring for signaling and control, where the signals involve brief radio frequency bursts representing Digital data, digital information. A wireless radio-based protocol transport is also defined. X10 was developed in 1975 by Pico Electronics of Glenrothes, Scotland, in order to allow remote control of home devices and appliances. It was the first general purpose home automation network technology and remains the most widely available. Although a number of higher-bandwidth (computing), bandwidth alternatives exist, X10 remains popular in the home environment with millions of units in use worldwide, and inexpensive availability of new components. History In 1970, a group of engineers started a company in Glenrothes, Scotland called Pico Electronics. The company developed the first single chip calculator. When calculator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X10 1
X1 or X-one may refer to: Transportation Automobiles * BMW X1, a 2009–present German subcompact luxury SUV * Geely Yuanjing X1, a 2017–2021 Chinese mini crossover * Red Bull X1, the former name of the Red Bull X2010, a fictional car created for the game ''Gran Turismo 5'' * Wrightspeed X1, a 2008 electric sports car prototype based on the Ariel Atom Bus routes * X1 (Metrobus), a bus route in Washington, District of Columbia, United States * X1 (New York City bus), a bus route in New York City, New York, United States * X1 Steel Link, a bus rapid transit service between Sheffield, Rotherham, and Maltby in England, United Kingdom * Excel X1, a bus route from Lowestoft to Peterborough in England, United Kingdom * X1 Glasgow–Hamilton, a former bus route in Scotland * Green Line routes X1 and X10, a former coach route from Southend-on-Sea to London Rail transport * SL X1, a former Swedish commuter train built by ASEA * LNER Class X1, a single locomotive rebuilt several tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commodore 64
The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit computing, 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas). It has been listed in the Guinness World Records as the highest-selling single computer model of all time, with independent estimates placing the number sold between 12.5 and 17 million units. Volume production started in early 1982, marketing in August for . Preceded by the VIC-20 and Commodore PET, the C64 took its name from its of RAM. With support for multicolor sprite (computer graphics), sprites and a custom chip for waveform generation, the C64 could create superior visuals and audio compared to systems without such custom hardware. The C64 dominated the low-end computer market (except in the UK, France and Japan, lasting only about six months in Japan) for most of the later years of the 1980s. For a substantial period (1983–1986), the C64 had betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X10 5
X1 or X-one may refer to: Transportation Automobiles * BMW X1, a 2009–present German subcompact luxury SUV * Geely Yuanjing X1, a 2017–2021 Chinese mini crossover * Red Bull X1, the former name of the Red Bull X2010, a fictional car created for the game ''Gran Turismo 5'' * Wrightspeed X1, a 2008 electric sports car prototype based on the Ariel Atom Bus routes * X1 (Metrobus), a bus route in Washington, District of Columbia, United States * X1 (New York City bus), a bus route in New York City, New York, United States * X1 Steel Link, a bus rapid transit service between Sheffield, Rotherham, and Maltby in England, United Kingdom * Excel X1, a bus route from Lowestoft to Peterborough in England, United Kingdom * X1 Glasgow–Hamilton, a former bus route in Scotland * Green Line routes X1 and X10, a former coach route from Southend-on-Sea to London Rail transport * SL X1, a former Swedish commuter train built by ASEA * LNER Class X1, a single locomotive rebuilt several tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NuTone
NuTone is an American company that manufactures products mainly for residential use, including doorbells, intercom systems, indoor air quality products, ventilation systems, range hoods, ceiling fans, built-in electric heaters, ironing equipment, and home theater systems. The company was founded in 1936 by J. Ralph Corbett in Cincinnati, Ohio. Corbett backed an inventor from Dayton, Ohio Dayton () is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of cities in Ohio, sixth-most populous city in Ohio, with a population of 137,644 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The Dayton metro ... who was marketing a doorbell that could replace door buzzers. The inventor defaulted on Corbett's loan, and Corbett marketed the product under the NuTone brand, reducing production costs enough to make doorbells affordable and creating the doorbell market. NuTone became a publicly traded company in 1955. Other NuTone-created products included ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnavox
Magnavox (Latin for "great voice", often stylized as MAGNAVOX) is an American electronics brand. It was purchased by North American Philips in 1974, which was absorbed into Dutch electronics company Philips in 1987. The predecessor to Magnavox was founded in 1911 by Edwin Pridham and Peter L. Jensen, co-inventors of the moving-coil loudspeaker at their lab in Napa, California, under United States Patent number 1,105,924 for telephone receivers.Kornum, Rene.The loudspeaker is 100 years old ''Ingeniøren'', 4 November 2015 Six decades later, Magnavox produced the Magnavox Odyssey, Odyssey, the world's first home video game console. On January 29, 2013, it was announced that Philips had agreed to sell its audio and video operations to the Japan-based Funai, Funai Electric for €150 million, with the audio business planned to transfer to Funai in the latter half of 2013, and the video business in 2017. As part of the transaction, Funai was to pay a regular licensing fee to Philips f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Black & Decker
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., formerly known as The Stanley Works, is a ''Fortune'' 500 American manufacturer of industrial tools and household hardware, and a provider of security products. Headquartered in the Greater Hartford city of New Britain, Connecticut, Stanley Black & Decker is the result of the merger of The Stanley Works and Black & Decker on March 12, 2010. History The Stanley Works came to existence as a direct result of the 1920 merger of Stanley's Bolt Manufactory, founded by Frederick Trent Stanley in 1843, and the Stanley Rule and Level Company, Enormously detailed model history of planes manufactured by Stanley. founded by Frederick's cousin, Henry Stanley, in 1857. DeWalt was acquired in 1960, and sold to Black & Decker. In March 12, 2010 Black & Decker merged with Stanley Works to become Stanley Black & Decker. It’s a wholly owned subsidiary of that company. During World War II, Stanley Works received the Army-Navy "E" Award for excellence in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leviton
Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc. is an American manufacturer of electrical wiring equipment in North America. The company produces electrical outlets and Light switches, as well as GFCI and USB charging devices, network infrastructure, lighting control systems, load centers and circuit breakers, EV charging stations, and utility submetering.Anonymous. Energy & Power Management. Troy: Jun 2005.Vol.30, Iss. 6; pp. 29–35. History Leviton was founded in 1906 by Russian immigrants Evser Leviton and his son Isidor Leviton when they began manufacturing brass mantle tips for natural gas lights in Manhattan's Lower East Side. In 1910, Isidor designed a screw-in lampholder for the newly invented electric light bulb and within ten years the lampholders were installed in apartment buildings across Manhattan. In 1916, Leviton moved its headquarters to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and in 1922 Leviton moved to Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The company first began manufacturing wall outlet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Shack
RadioShack (formerly written as Radio Shack) is an American electronics retailer that was established in 1921 as an amateur radio mail-order business. Its parent company was purchased by Tandy Corporation in 1962, which shifted its focus from mail-order radio equipment to hobbyist electronics sold at retail. Tandy ended the mail-order business, opened small stores staffed by people who knew electronics, greatly reduced the number of items carried, and replaced name-brand products with private-label items from lower-cost manufacturers. These moves were successful and the brand grew. In the late 1970s, the company branched into personal computers, and in the 1990s, it began to focus on wireless phones and de-emphasize the hobbyist market. RadioShack reached its peak in 1999, when Tandy operated over 8,000 stores in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, and under the Tandy name in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Australia. However, its sales strat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LonWorks
LonWorks or Local Operating Network is an open standard (ISO/IEC 14908) for networking platforms specifically created to address the needs of control applications. The platform is built on a protocol created by Echelon Corporation for networking devices over media such as twisted pair, power lines, fiber optics, and wireless. It is used for the automation of various functions within buildings such as lighting and HVAC; see building automation. Origins and uptake The technology had its origins with chip designs, power lines, twisted pairs, signaling technology, routers, network management software, and other products from Echelon Corporation. In 1999 the communications protocol (then known as LonTalk) was submitted to ANSI and accepted as a standard for control networking (ANSI/CEA-709.1-B). Echelon's power line and twisted pair signaling technology were also submitted to ANSI for standardization and acceptance. Since then, ANSI/CEA-709.1 has been accepted as the basis for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CEBus
Gracile capuchin monkeys are capuchin monkeys in the genus ''Cebus''. At one time all capuchin monkeys were included within the genus ''Cebus''. In 2011, Jessica Lynch Alfaro ''et al.'' proposed splitting the genus between the robust capuchin monkeys, such as the tufted capuchin, and the gracile capuchins. The gracile capuchins retain the genus name ''Cebus'', while the robust species have been transferred to '' Sapajus''. Taxonomy Following Groves (2005), taxa within the genus ''Cebus'' include: * White-fronted capuchin, ''Cebus albifrons'' ** Ecuadorian capuchin, ''Cebus albifrons aequatorialis'' ** Humboldt's white-fronted capuchin, ''Cebus albifrons albifrons'' ** Shock-headed capuchin, ''Cebus albifrons cuscinus'' ** Trinidad white-fronted capuchin, ''Cebus albifrons trinitatis'' ** Spix's white-fronted capuchin, ''Cebus albifrons unicolor'' ** Varied capuchin, ''Cebus albifrons versicolor'' * White-headed capuchin or white-faced capuchin, ''Cebus capucinus' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Dollar
The United States dollar (Currency symbol, symbol: Dollar sign, $; ISO 4217, currency code: USD) is the official currency of the United States and International use of the U.S. dollar, several other countries. The Coinage Act of 1792 introduced the U.S. dollar at par with the Spanish dollar, Spanish silver dollar, divided it into 100 cent (currency), cents, and authorized the Mint (facility), minting of coins denominated in dollars and cents. U.S. banknotes are issued in the form of Federal Reserve Notes, popularly called greenbacks due to their predominantly green color. The U.S. dollar was originally defined under a bimetallism, bimetallic standard of (0.7734375 troy ounces) fine silver or, from Coinage Act of 1834, 1834, fine gold, or $20.67 per troy ounce. The Gold Standard Act of 1900 linked the dollar solely to gold. From 1934, its equivalence to gold was revised to $35 per troy ounce. In 1971 all links to gold were repealed. The U.S. dollar became an important intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microsoft Windows
Windows is a Product lining, product line of Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sectors of the computing industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a Server (computing), server and Windows IoT for an embedded system. Windows is sold as either a consumer retail product or licensed to Original equipment manufacturer, third-party hardware manufacturers who sell products Software bundles, bundled with Windows. The first version of Windows, Windows 1.0, was released on November 20, 1985, as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs). The name "Windows" is a reference to the windowing system in GUIs. The 1990 release of Windows 3.0 catapulted its market success and led to various other product families ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
