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Lockport, City Of, New York: One Of The Widest In The World, Built, 1914, By New York State, Spanning Erie Barge Canal. Width 399 Ft. 7 In. Roadway Of Creosote Wood Block. 8: UNION SCHOOL On Chestnut St. Between Washburn & Charles Sts. Lockport, City Of, New York: First Union School In State, Created By Act Of March 31, 1847, Erected 1847-48,.
The Statue of Liberty, showing advanced patination; verdigris is responsible for the statue's iconic green colour.. Verdigris (/ ˈ v ɜːr d ɪ ɡ r iː (s)/) [1] is a common name for any of a variety of somewhat toxic [2] [3] [4] copper salts of acetic acid, which range in colour from green to a bluish-green depending on their chemical composition.
[10] For the past quarter century, copper has been designed into a much wider range of buildings, incorporating new styles, varieties of colors, and different shapes and textures. [11] Copper clad walls are a modern design element in both indoor and outdoor environments. Some of the world's most distinguished modern architects have relied on ...
In 1697 William III granted the property that included the future Mandeville House to Adolphe Philipse, whose family owned much of today's Putnam County. He is the first European owner of record. Thirty-eight years later, in 1735, Jacob Mandeville, leased 400 acres (160 ha) in the area of present-day Garrison, married and likely built the first ...
In North America, copper mining began with marginal workings by Native Americans. Native copper is known to have been extracted from sites on Isle Royale with primitive stone tools between 800 and 1600. [12] Copper metallurgy was flourishing in South America, particularly in Peru around 1000 AD; it proceeded at a much slower rate on other ...
New York Times. October 11, 1921. Chandler, Alfred Dupont and Hikino, Takashi. Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-674-78995-4 "Copper and Brass Industry." The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge. New York: Encyclopedia Americana Corp., 1918.
In 1841, he sold the farm, removed to Stuyvesant Falls, New York, and became engaged in flour and paper mills there. In 1852, he established his own paper mill in Livingston, New York, and ran this business until 1856 when he retired. He was a Democratic member of the New York State Senate (11th D.) in 1858 and 1859. Mandeville was appointed as ...
The preexisting interior coatings on both the secondary wrought iron framework and the wrought iron central pylon would be removed along with the multiple layers of coal tar and paint that had been applied to the internal copper sheathing. An article in The New York Times of February 8, 1984, mentioned that the interior copper which was at that ...