Chowist Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Hearing protection device - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_protection_device

   A hearing protection device, also known as a HPD, is an ear protection device worn in or over the ears while exposed to hazardous noise and provide hearing protection to help prevent noise-induced hearing loss. HPDs reduce the level of the noise entering the ear. HPDs can also protect against other effects of noise exposure such as tinnitus and ...

3. Earmuffs - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earmuffs

   Earmuffs that are also hearing protection. Earmuffs refer to two different items. Both items consist of a thermoplastic or metal head-band that fits over the top or back of the head, and a cushion or cup at each end to usually cover both ears. The cups can either be clothing accessories designed to cover a person's ears for warmth or personal ...

4. 1933 anti-Nazi boycott - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_anti-Nazi_boycott

   The anti-Nazi boycott was an international boycott of German products in response to violence and harassment by members of Adolf Hitler 's Nazi Party against Jews following his appointment as Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. Examples of Nazi violence and harassment included placing and throwing stink bombs, picketing, shopper ...

5. Irish Army deafness claims - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Army_deafness_claims

   The army deafness [nb 1] claims were a series of personal injury claims taken from 1992 to 2002 against the Irish Department of Defence by members of the Irish Defence Forces for noise-induced hearing loss resulting from exposure to loud noise during military operations and training. The claims stated that the government had failed to provide ...

6. Chester Greenwood - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Greenwood

   Chester Greenwood (4 December 1858 – 5 July 1937) was an American engineer and inventor, known for inventing the earmuffs in 1873. [ 1] He reportedly came up with the idea while ice skating and he asked his grandmother to sew tufts of fur between loops of wire. [ 2] His patent was for improved ear protectors.

7. Border guards of the inner German border - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_guards_of_the_inner...

   West Germany's membership of NATO was a frequent target. NATO exercises in Germany were denounced as "warmongering" and the stationing of nuclear weapons on West German soil was condemned. Bonn's claimed continuity with the former Nazi regime was also a theme of East German propaganda, as was the emergence of the far-right National Democratic ...