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Fiber cement is a composite material made of cement reinforced with cellulose fibers. Originally, asbestos was used as the reinforcing material but, due to safety concerns, that was replaced by cellulose in the 1980s. [1] Fiber cement board may come pre-painted or pre-stained or can be done so after its installation. [2]
James Hardie (27 July 1851 – 20 November 1920) [2] emigrated to Australia in 1888 from Linlithgow, Scotland, and established a business importing oils and animal hides.. Andrew Reid, also from Linlithgow, came to join Hardie in Melbourne, and became a full partner in 1895
Depending on the diameter of the log, cuts are made from 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 to 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (110 to 170 mm) deep along the full length of the log. Each time the log turns for the next cut, it is rotated 5 ⁄ 8 inch (16 mm) until it has turned 360°. This gives the radially sawn clapboard its taper and true vertical grain.
The starting gate was invented by Clay Puett of Chillicothe, Texas, when it was used at Lansdowne Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for the first time on July 1, 1939. [291] U.S. patent #2,232,675 was filed by Puett on August 7, 1939, and issued to him on February 18, 1941. [292] 1939 Twist tie
In 1958 a version of the integrated circuit was invented in Dallas by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments; this event punctuated the Dallas area's development as a center for high-technology manufacturing (though the technology Mr. Kilby developed was soon usurped by a competing technology simultaneously developed in the "Silicon Valley" in California by engineers who would go on to form Intel ...
Rick Kern/Getty. Matthew McConaughey attends the 12th Annual Mack, Jack & McConaughey Gala at ACL Live on April 25, 2024 in Austin, Texas.
Marshall Pottery Inc. is the largest manufacturer of red clay pots in the United States. From 1974 [1] to 2015, Marshall Pottery operated a 100,000 ft 2 (9,000 m 2) retail store adjacent to its headquarters in Marshall, Texas, which at one time attracted over 500,000 tourists each year.
The manufacturing operations of the company at 2nd and Girard Streets in Houston, Texas, where it was located in the 1910s. Today, the site of the building is on the campus of University of Houston–Downtown. A February 1914 advertisement for the Sharp-Hughes Tool Company in Fuel Oil Journal.