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  2. Fiber cement siding - Wikipedia

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    Blue fiber cement siding HardiePanel on design-build addition, Ithaca NY. Fiber cement siding (also known as "fibre cement cladding" in the United Kingdom, "fibro" in Australia, and by the proprietary name "Hardie Plank" in the United States) is a building material used to cover the exterior of a building in both commercial and domestic applications.

  3. James Hardie Industries - Wikipedia

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    James Hardie Industries plc is a global building materials company and the ... James Hardie invented the modern day asbestos-free fibre cement material and had ...

  4. Asbestos cement - Wikipedia

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    Predominantly manufactured and sold by James Hardie until the mid-1980s, fibro in all its forms was a popular building material, largely due to its durability. The reinforcing fibres used in the product were almost always asbestos. James Hardie and Wunderlich float ready for the Victory Day procession in Brisbane, 1946

  5. Interior Designer Andrew Howard Adds The Holiday Magic To His ...

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    Wary of the children's fingerprints, he coated the door with a smudge-repellent lacquer (Benjamin Moore's Graphite, 1603) and clad the exterior with super-durable James Hardie fiber-cement siding ...

  6. List of generic and genericized trademarks - Wikipedia

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    James Hardie [119] [120] Hills Hoist: Rotary clothes line: Hills Industries: Australian usage [121] Hoover: Vacuum cleaner: Hoover Company: Widely used as a noun and verb. [108] De facto loss of trademark in the UK. [122] Hula hoop: Toy hoop Wham-O [123] Indomie: Instant noodle: Indofood: Common in Indonesia and Nigeria as a genericized mark ...

  7. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    1974: The lithium-ion battery is invented by M. Stanley Whittingham, and further developed in the 1980s and 1990s by John B. Goodenough, Rachid Yazami and Akira Yoshino. It has impacted modern consumer electronics and electric vehicles. [509] 1974: The Rubik's cube is invented by Ernő Rubik which went on to be the best selling puzzle ever. [510]

  8. Drywall - Wikipedia

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    Various sized cuts of 1 ⁄ 2 in (13 mm) drywall with tools for maintenance and installation . Drywall (also called plasterboard, dry lining, [1] wallboard, sheet rock, gib board, gypsum board, buster board, turtles board, slap board, custard board, gypsum panel and gyprock) is a panel made of calcium sulfate dihydrate (), with or without additives, typically extruded between thick sheets of ...

  9. Clapboard - Wikipedia

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    Later, the boards were radially sawn in a type of sawmill called a clapboard mill, producing vertical-grain clapboards. The more commonly used boards in New England are vertical-grain boards.