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  2. Masonite - Wikipedia

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    Masonite board Back side of a masonite board Isorel, с. 1920 Quartrboard, [1] Masonite Corporation, c. 1930. Masonite, also called Quartboard or pressboard, [2] is a type of engineered wood made of steam-cooked and pressure-molded wood or paper fibers. The fibers form a stiff, dense material in a range of weights.

  3. Masonite International - Wikipedia

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    In late 1925, construction was started on the company's first plant in Laurel to produce insulation board and Mason’s newly-created hardboard. [citation needed] Mason's board was created by accident. [3] Masonite soon licensed facilities in Australia, Canada, Italy and Sweden to ramp up hardboard production.

  4. William H. Mason - Wikipedia

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    He was educated in engineering at the Cornell University.Mason was actually apprenticed under Thomas A. Edison.. Masonite was first formed by W. Mason using the so called Mason method, [3] in which wood chips are disintegrated by saturating them with 100-pound-per-square-inch (690 kPa) steam, then increasing the steam or air pressure to 400 pounds per square inch (2,800 kPa) and suddenly ...

  5. Hardboard - Wikipedia

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    Hardboard is similar to particle board and medium-density fiberboard, but is denser, stronger and harder because it is made out of exploded wood fibers that have been highly compressed. [ 3 ] The density of hardboard is higher than 500 kg/m 3 (31 lb/cu ft), [ 4 ] usually about 800–1,040 kg/m 3 (50–65 lb/cu ft). [ 5 ]

  6. Paintings on Masonite - Wikipedia

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    Paintings on Masonite is a series of 27 abstract paintings made by Joan Miró using the type of proprietary hardboard known as masonite, just after the Spanish Civil War started on 18 July 1936. These works break with his earlier phase which was known as his wild paintings period.

  7. Perforated hardboard - Wikipedia

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    Peg-Board is an expired trademark used as a brand name by the Masonite Corporation, first used in 1962, [1] which is often used as a generic term for perforated storage boards made of hardboard, wood, metal, or other material.

  8. Homasote - Wikipedia

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    Homasote was widely used as wall sheeting from the 1940s into the 1970s. Due to the development of more fire-resistant gypsum board, it has decreased in popularity as a wall sheeting. Homasote is found in studio spaces and featured in many art institutions as a wall covering and doubling as a type of cork board.

  9. List of paintings by Frida Kahlo - Wikipedia

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    Oil on canvas mounted on masonite, 44.5 x 37 cm Collection of Dolores Olmedo Patiño, Mexico City, Mexico 1944 Diego and Frida 1929–1944: Diego y Frida 1929–1944: Oil on masonite, 12.3 x 7.4 cm; with frame 26 x 18.5 cm [3] Private collection, Mexico City, Mexico [3] 1944 Frida and Diego (Diego and Frida 1929–1944 II)