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  2. List of timber framing tools - Wikipedia

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    Tools include dividers, axes, chisel and mallet, beam cart, pit saw, trestles, and bisaigue. The men talking may be holding a story pole and rule (or walking cane). Shear legs are hoisting a timber. Below, the sticks on the log are winding sticks used to align the ends of a timber. Tools used in traditional timber framing date back thousands of ...

  3. List of building materials - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of building materials.. Many types of building materials are used in the construction industry to create buildings and structures.These categories of materials and products are used by architects and construction project managers to specify the materials and methods used for building projects.

  4. History of construction - Wikipedia

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    The history of construction traces the changes in building tools, methods, techniques and systems used in the field of construction.It explains the evolution of how humans created shelter and other structures that comprises the entire built environment.

  5. Plumb bob - Wikipedia

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    An A-frame level with a plumb line hung from the vertex was also used to find horizontal; these were used in Europe until the mid–19th century. A variation of this tool has the plumb line hung from the top of an inverted T shape. [3] The early skyscrapers used heavy plumb bobs, hung on wire in their elevator shafts. [further explanation needed]

  6. Hard hat - Wikipedia

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    A hard hat is a type of helmet predominantly used in hazardous environments such as industrial or construction sites to protect the head from injury due to falling objects (such as tools and debris), impact with other objects, and electric shock, as well as from rain. Suspension bands inside the helmet spread the helmet's weight and the force ...

  7. Spirit level - Wikipedia

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    The Fell All-Way precision level, one of the first successful American made bull's eye levels for machine tool use, was invented by William B. Fell of Rockford, Illinois in 1939. [2] The device was unique in that it could be placed on a machine bed and show tilt on the x-y axes simultaneously, eliminating the need to rotate the level 90 degrees.

  8. Top hat - Wikipedia

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    c. 1910 top hat by Alfred Bertiel European royalty c. 1859 Austin Lane Crothers, 46th Governor of Maryland (1908–1912), wearing a top hat. A top hat (also called a high hat, or, informally, a topper) is a tall, flat-crowned hat traditionally associated with formal wear in Western dress codes, meaning white tie, morning dress, or frock coat.

  9. Diamond tool - Wikipedia

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    An example of this kind of tool is the resin-bonded diamond polishing pads used in the construction industry. Plated diamond tools: These tools are made by fixing the diamonds onto the tool's base via electroplating method or via CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition) method. They can usually be made to good processing precision. Ceramic-bonded ...