Vornado fan

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Vornado fan

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Richard Ten Eyck
Ten Eyck also designed the Vornado fan for the O.A. Sutton Corporation in Wichita (c. 1945–59), with later reincarnations by Vornado Air Circulators, Inc. (after 1988). These fans pushed a concentrated funnel of air in emulation of the turbines in jet engines and became an icon of the so-called Atomic…
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Ten Eyck also designed the Vornado fan for the O.A. Sutton Corporation in Wichita (c. 1945–59), with later reincarnations by Vornado Air Circulators, Inc. (after 1988). These fans pushed a concentrated funnel of air in emulation of the turbines in jet engines and became an icon of the so-called Atomic…
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