Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Woodworking was essential to the Romans. It provided, material for buildings, transportation, tools, and household items. Wood also provided pipes, dye, waterproofing materials, and energy for heat. [5]: 1 Although most examples of Roman woodworking have been lost, [5]: 2 the literary record preserved much of the contemporary knowledge.
Some woodworking joints employ mechanical fasteners, bindings, or adhesives, while others use only wood elements (such as dowels or plain mortise and tenon fittings). The characteristics of wooden joints—strength, flexibility, toughness, appearance, etc.—derive from the properties of the materials involved and the purpose of the joint.
[33] Woodbridge was the site of the first gristmill in New Jersey. [34] [35] The mill was built by Jonathan Singletary Dunham, who was married to Mary Bloomfield, relative of Joseph Bloomfield. [36] [37] Woodbridge Township is the oldest original township in New Jersey and was granted a royal charter on June 1, 1669, by King Charles II of ...
Industrialist David C. Wood (1781–1859) built an iron furnace here by the Maurice River in 1814. The two-story house was built in three sections. The two-story house was built in three sections. The first was built c. 1814 in Federal style , the second c. 1864 built by George Wood (1842–1926) with Italianate style , and the third c. 1864 ...
Wildwood is a city in Cape May County in the U.S. state of New Jersey.The city, and all of Cape May County, is part of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, and is part of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD combined statistical area, also known as the Delaware Valley or Philadelphia metropolitan area. [19]
Museum for Art in Wood is an American educational wood art institution located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.It was officially established as a nonprofit in 1986 by brothers Albert and Alan LeCoff, following a series of international symposium from 1976 to 1986 presented by the LeCoff's with woodturner Palmer Sharpless.
Get the Boydton, VA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Authorship of many woodcuts is uncertain, with different sources disagreeing if the woodcut was made by Dürer alone, with help of one of his students, or by one of his students with or without Dürer supervision. For some prints we also have only copies from late printings, which could be by Dürer or a copy of a lost print by him.