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Hopkins and Riley followed up that book with Inventions from the Shed (1999) [17] and a 5-part film documentary series with the same name. [18] Gordon Thorburn also examined the shed proclivity in his book Men and Sheds (2002), [19] as did Gareth Jones in Shed Men (2004). [20] Recently, "Men's Sheds" have become common in Australia. [21]
Wire-Photos are in wide use in Europe by 1910, and transmitted to other continents by 1922. 1907 – The Autochrome plate is introduced. It becomes the first commercially successful color photography product. 1908 – Kinemacolor, a two-color process known as the first commercial "natural color" system for movies, is introduced.
Shingles historically were called tiles, and shingle was a term applied to wood shingles, [1] as is still mostly the case outside the US. Shingles are laid in courses, usually with each shingle offset from its neighbors. The first course is the starter course and the last being a ridge course or ridge slates for a slate roof.
Mudbricks faced were burnt brick set in bitumen were used to originally construct the Ziggurat of Ur. [17] The wheel was invented by the Sumerians in the copper age but it will not be until around 3500 BC when it will be used in transportation. [6] Heavy loads were moved on boats, sledges (a primitive sled) or on rollers. [18]
Granville Tailer Woods (April 23, 1856 – January 30, 1910) was an American inventor who held more than 60 patents in the United States. [1] He was the first African American mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. [2]
Excavations of the ship sheds (neōsoikoi, νεώσοικοι) at the harbour of Zea in Piraeus, which was the main war harbour of ancient Athens, were first carried out by Dragatsis and Wilhelm Dörpfeld in the 1880s. [26] These have provided us with a general outline of the Athenian trireme. The sheds were ca. 40 m long and just 6 m wide.
Archaeological ruins and ancient texts show that silos were used in ancient Greece as far back as the late 8th century BC; the term silo is derived from the Greek σιρός (siros), "pit for holding grain". [8] [9] [10] The silo pit, as it has been termed, has been a favorite way of storing grain from time immemorial in Asia.
In the U.S., older barns were built from timbers hewn from trees on the farm and built as a log crib barn or timber frame, although stone barns were sometimes built in areas where stone was a cheaper building material. In the mid to late 19th century in the U.S. barn framing methods began to shift away from traditional timber framing to "truss ...