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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]
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.
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.
The oldest surviving camera photograph, by Nicéphore Niépce, 1826 or 1827 [1] View of the Boulevard du Temple, first photograph including a person (on pavement at lower left), by Daguerre, 1838 First durable color photograph, 1861 An 1877 photographic color print on paper by Louis Ducos du Hauron.
The little sheds in each back yard are outhouses. "Dunny" or "dunny can" are Australian words for a toilet, particularly an outhouse. The combinations "dunny paper" and "dunny brush" are commonly encountered. [citation needed] For other uses of the word, see dunny (disambiguation).
In the shearing shed the woolly sheep will be penned on a slatted wooden or woven mesh floor above ground level. The sheep entry to the shed is via a wide ramp, with good footholds and preferably enclosed sides. After shearing the shearing shed may also provide warm shelter for newly shorn sheep if the weather is likely to be cold and/or wet.
Other sizes were developed, including 20-by-40-foot (6.1 m × 12.2 m) and 40-by-100-foot (12 m × 30 m) warehouse models. [6] The sides were corrugated steel sheets, and the two ends were covered with plywood which had doors and windows. The interior was insulated and had pressed wood lining and a wood floor.
Wattle and daub walls were easily destroyed by the drenching rains of Australia's severe summer storms, and for a time, walls of timber slabs took their place. These were soon replaced by brick structures; the Sydney Cove landscape was almost denuded of useful timber. [n. 1] [3] Stone fireplace in slab hut, Paynes Crossing Road, Wollombi