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A Liseuse desk is a medium-sized writing table with a small hinged panel in the middle which can spring up by the aid of a mechanism or be propped up at a desired angle to facilitate reading, or writing on its slanted surface. Many have lateral panels which swing out on both sides to give a larger desk surface. [1]
Many varieties had a slanted or angled top with a lower lip, meant to hold the Bible for reading when the box was placed on a table. [1] In a sense it then served as a portable lectern . Over the years the typical Bible box was also used or specifically built to contain writing implements such as a quill , ink pot, blotting paper and writing paper.
The slant-top desk, also called secretary desk, or more properly, a bureau, is a piece of writing furniture with a lid that closes at an angle and opens up as a writing surface. It can be considered related, in form, to the desk on a frame , which was a form of portable desk in earlier eras.
A 19th century architect at the drawing board. A drawing board (also drawing table, drafting table or architect's table) is, in its antique form, a kind of multipurpose desk which can be used for any kind of drawing, writing or impromptu sketching on a large sheet of paper or for reading a large format book or other oversized document or for drafting precise technical illustrations (such as ...
Surface dyslexia is a type of dyslexia, or reading disorder. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to Marshall & Newcombe's (1973) and McCarthy & Warrington's study (1990), patients with this kind of disorder cannot recognize a word as a whole due to the damage of the left parietal or temporal lobe .
Telephone with built in writing surface. The telephone desk is the smallest kind of fixed desk. Its traditional role is to provide a working surface barely large enough to write notes while speaking on the telephone, and in some cases to support the telephone or hold telephone books. In early generations of telephones the phone apparatus itself ...
A thin paper strip with its ends joined to form a Möbius strip can bend smoothly as a developable surface or be folded flat; the flattened Möbius strips include the trihexaflexagon. The Sudanese Möbius strip is a minimal surface in a hypersphere , and the Meeks Möbius strip is a self-intersecting minimal surface in ordinary Euclidean space.
The entrance to the cave is at 306 m above sea level through a 14 m deep pit. [1]: 11 The entrance pit leads into a roughly 10×20 m chamber up to 5 m high with a sloped floor covered in stone blocks that have fallen from the roof over geological time, in which fossils can be found.