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Most buildings in Northern Europe were constructed of timber until c. 1000 AD. In Southern Europe adobe remained predominant. Brick continued to be manufactured in Italy throughout the period 600–1000 AD but elsewhere the craft of brick-making had largely disappeared and with it the methods for burning tiles. Roofs were largely thatched.
The Clipper Ship Flying Cloud off the Needles, Isle of Wight, off the southern English coast. Painting by James E. Buttersworth. The Maritime history of Europe represents the era of recorded human interaction with the sea in the northwestern region of Eurasia in areas that include shipping and shipbuilding, shipwrecks, naval battles, and military installations and lighthouses constructed to ...
The 'Red House' at Framlingham Castle in Suffolk was founded as a workhouse in 1664. [6] " The workroom at St James's workhouse", from The Microcosm of London (1808). The workhouse system evolved in the 17th century, allowing parishes to reduce the cost to ratepayers of providing poor relief.
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.
[8] [9] They also built or acquired a number of palaces, castles and houses throughout Europe, many of which remain standing today. In England, they owned a number of country seats in the home counties .
Today, houses the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum [84] more images: Joseph Raphael De Lamar House: 1902: Beaux-Arts: C. P. H. Gilbert: New York City: Purchased by the Republic of Poland in 1973 to house its Consulate General [85] more images: James A. Burden House: 1905: Italian Renaissance: Warren & Wetmore: New York City
The bunkering of ships with oil instead of coal, mass-production of automobiles and increasing aviation, all increased demand for oil and thus oil transport. In 1928 the World's largest oil tanker was the 16,436 gross register tons (GRT) C.O. Stillman , completed that year for Canadian owners by Bremer Vulkan in Germany.
The modern U.S. petroleum industry is considered to have begun with Edwin Drake's drilling of a 69-foot (21 m) oil well in 1859, [37] on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania, for the Seneca Oil Company (originally yielding 25 barrels per day (4.0 m 3 /d), by the end of the year output was at the rate of 15 barrels per day (2.4 m 3 /d)).