Vint Cerf

Energy, health care and education are just three examples of areas in which information and information management are critically important. How are we using our energy? What appliances in homes or business are consuming the most energy? When do they consume it? Can the load be shifted? How efficient are these devices?

American Scientist

Jeff Bezos

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

American Businessman

John Burroughs

I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life. Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.

American Author

Harold Ford, Jr.

I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.

American Politician

Dorothy Denning

Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet.

American Public Servant

Sayed Kashua

I'm afraid of a gas leak, although I installed detectors. I'm afraid of a blown fuse that could cause a fire, and that's why I don't turn on electrical appliances at night.

Israeli Author

Bill Vaughan

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.

American Journalist

Robert Byrne

Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.

Pranav Mistry

For me, how an appliance looks is as important as how efficiently it works.

Indian Scientist

Anthony Daniels

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

English Actor

Appliances often refer to devices used daily at home for chores, comfort, or convenience.

Home Use

An appliance typically has a distinct function, such as heating food or cleaning.

Specific Tasks

The word appliance conveys modernity as it is mostly associated with recent technological advances.

Modern Conveniences

In technical contexts, 'appliance' refers to tools used for professional tasks.

Professional Settings

In certain jobs, appliances are specialized equipment not usually found outside that context.

Specialized Equipment

In engineering, an appliance is an integral part of a larger system or machine.

Engineering Integration

Appliances in engineering may be added later to enhance or update a machine.

Functional Additions

Engineering appliances can be built-in or portable parts depending on their use.

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 it's about the whole system, the whole energy system that goes with that lightbulb, and what happened in that gilded age was the creation of an industrial system that every country around the world has now started to emulate. So to get to the appliances, you need to have power stations. From power stations, you need to have infrastructure,

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 it started adopting all these new policies designed to drive competition at every level of the business he treated the different parts of the business like appliances apparel consumer electronics as completely different businesses that meant that if the apparel department needed it help they'd have to

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 We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it. But to make them palatable, we cut it out of a steel plate and put it in front of a fire and photographed it like this. We've got lots of little tidbits in the book. Everybody knows that your various appliances

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 That infrastructure then powers productive centers, such as factories, agricultural mechanization, commercial enterprises and the like. And this then stimulates economic growth, creating jobs, raising incomes and producing a virtuous cycle that helps more people afford more appliances,

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 elevating your head, and avoiding sleeping on your back may also help. For people who have a milder condition, mouth and throat exercises have been shown to alleviate obstructive sleep apnea in some preliminary trials. But these approaches, and devices like oral appliances,

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 has helped to spur industrialization and also helped in the creation and the building of things like household appliances such as refrigerators and televisions, motor vehicles and even the mobile phones in your pockets. It's no surprise, then, that even at the depths

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 Deconstruct appliances. There is a world of interesting things inside your dishwasher. Next time you're about to throw out an appliance, don't throw it out. Take it apart with your kid, or send him to my school, and we'll take it apart with them.

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 There's a bunch of things that are interesting about electricity. And the part of the electric revolution that I want to focus on is sort of the golden age of appliances. The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb.

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 wonderful campfire is the same thing as the sunlight that you feel on a beautiful day where you protect yourself from the all violet portion of it with SPF and it's the same thing as the signals used or employed or produced by your appliances

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 kilometers depth in the deep sea a part of the deep sea that no one had been to and we're driving through household appliances there was just this very surreal experience