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A Nissen hut is a prefabricated steel structure originally for military use, especially as barracks, made from a 210° portion of a cylindrical skin of corrugated iron. It was designed during the First World War by the Canadian-American-British engineer and inventor Major Peter Norman Nissen .
Royal Engineers, in front of a Nissen hut in 1917 Two Nissen stamps, installed c. 1909 at the Sound Democrat Mill near Silverton, Colorado Nissen huts at Altcar Training Camp Peter Norman Nissen , DSO (6 August 1871 – 2 March 1930), was a Canadian - American - British mining engineer, inventor and army officer.
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Quonset huts at Point Mugu, California, in 1946 with Laguna Peak in the background. A Quonset hut / ˈ k w ɒ n s ɪ t / is a lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated galvanized steel with a semi-circular cross-section. The design was developed in the United States based on the Nissen hut introduced by the British during World War I.
Twynham hut at RAF El Adem in 1969. The Twynham hut was developed by the British War Office in 1959 as a replacement for the Nissen hut which was first used in 1916. It was constructed of individual 8-foot (2.4 m) bays which made the roof stronger than that of its predecessor. Huts are known to have been constructed in lengths between 16 feet ...
The hostel consisted of Nissen huts, and one Nissen hut still stands and is now used as storage. [6] Mallala Hostel - Located at the former RAAF base in Mallala and operated circa 1949 to 1953. [4] Mannum Hostel - Operated circa 1950 to December 1954 on land purchased by the commonwealth government. [4]
At the outbreak of World War II, the British military developed a series of prefabricated huts to supplement the World-War-I-era Nissen hut.The Iris hut was one of these, a medium-scale hut of 35 feet (11 m) span and from 60 feet (18 m) to 96 feet (29 m) in length, with bays of 4 feet (1.2 m) sectional length able to be added as required.
Saint Nissen, a 5th century Irish abbot; a creature in Norse mythology, see Tomte; a Nissen hut, a building shaped like a tube cut in half along the middle and made from corrugated iron sheets; the Nissen Building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Nissen fundoplication, a surgical procedure to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease and hiatal hernia