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  2. Cordwood construction - Wikipedia

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    Cordwood masonry wall detail. The method is sometimes called stackwall because the effect resembles a stack of cordwood. A section of a cordwood home. Cordwood construction (also called cordwood masonry or cordwood building, alternatively stackwall or stovewood) is a term used for a natural building method in which short logs are piled crosswise to build a wall, using mortar or cob to ...

  3. Printed circuit board - Wikipedia

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    A cordwood module Cordwood construction was used in proximity fuzes. Cordwood construction can save significant space and was often used with wire-ended components in applications where space was at a premium (such as fuzes, missile guidance, and telemetry systems) and in high-speed computers, where short traces were important. In cordwood ...

  4. Natural building - Wikipedia

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    Cordwood construction is a natural building method in which "cordwood" or short lengths of pieces of debarked tree are laid up crosswise with masonry or cob mixtures to build a wall. The cordwood, thus, becomes infill for the walls, usually between posts in a timber frame structure.

  5. Turret board - Wikipedia

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    This is similar to cordwood construction . Turret boards consist of a thin (generally 1/8 inch) piece of insulating material drilled in pattern to match the electronic layout of a set of components. Each hole drilled will have a metal post (the turret) positioned in it. Electronic components are suspended between these turrets and soldered to ...

  6. Roundhouse (dwelling) - Wikipedia

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    The Taganrog Round House is a residential apartment building in Taganrog, Rostov and was the first round house built in the USSR. The building is a modern round house built in 1929 and inhabited on 7 November 1932. The shared toilet was outside the house, about 20 meters from it. [6] Plumbing and sewerage were equipped in the apartments of the ...

  7. Lumber - Wikipedia

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    They are the basic building blocks for such common structures as balloon-frame or platform-frame housing. Dimensional lumber made from softwood is typically used for construction, while hardwood boards are more commonly used for making cabinets or furniture. Lumber's nominal dimensions are larger than the actual standard dimensions of finished ...

  8. Talk:Cordwood construction - Wikipedia

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    In my view (and I am into natural building) it is an excellent resource. By this, I mean that anyone seeking to learn more about natural building would find this link informative. For example the site has a "Comparison of Natural Building Techniques" by Michael Smith that is one of the best compendiums I've seen. Given the state of the natural ...

  9. Bell System Practices - Wikipedia

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    The Bell System Practices (BSPs) is a compilation of technical publications which describes the best methods of engineering, constructing, installing, and maintaining the telephone plant of the Bell System under direction of AT&T and Bell Telephone Laboratories. [1] Covering everything from accounting and human resources procedures through ...