Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A bunkie board is thin mattress support originally intended for a bunk bed. It was invented in the early 20th century to provide a thinner platform support than box-springs , and more uniform support than slats.
Advertisement for Beaver Board, 1917. Beaverboard (also beaver board) is a fiberboard building material, formed of wood fibre compressed into sheets. It was originally a trademark [1] for a lumber product built up from the fibre of clean white spruce [2] made from 1906 until 1928 by the Beaver Manufacturing Company at their plant in Beaver Falls and marketed from their headquarters on Beaver ...
Bed of Queen Hetepheres I, with headrest (near end). 4th Dynasty of Egypt , circa 2575-2528 B.C. Bed is 177 cm (5ft 9in) long. The 600s (7th-century) Anglo-Saxon Trumpington bed burial held a 60cm by 155cm bed with pieces of looped wrought iron , which may have held the bed base.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
Magnesium oxide wallboard (10 mm thickness) Magnesium oxide, more commonly called magnesia, is a mineral that when used as part of a cement mixture and cast into thin cement panels under proper curing procedures and practices can be used in residential and commercial building construction.
Cement board is composed of aggregated Portland cement with a glass-fiber mesh on the surfaces. This 5 ⁄ 16 inch (7.9 mm) thick cement board is designed as an underlayment for tile floors. These are 3-by-5-foot (91 by 152 cm) sheets.
Hollow glass wall blocks are manufactured as two separate halves and, while the glass is still molten, the two pieces are pressed together and annealed. The resulting glass blocks will have a partial vacuum at the hollow center. Due to the hollow center, wall glass blocks do not have the load-bearing capacity of masonry bricks and therefore are ...
Perforated hardboard and similar systems are made of a variety of materials, each of which has different characteristics that affect the range of possible uses. Standard perforated hardboard is made of wood fibers, usually with the addition of resin , and tempered by coating with a thin layer of linseed oil and baking at a high temperature to ...