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  2. Blickensderfer typewriter - Wikipedia

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    The home, or lowest row of keys, contained the most commonly used letters. Blickensderfer determined that 85% of words contained these letters, DHIATENSOR . This positioning allowed the typist to keep his hands on the home row as much as possible, minimizing extraneous hand movement and increasing efficiency.

  3. Home Hardware - Wikipedia

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    Home Hardware Dealer Support Centre in St. Jacobs, Ontario. Home Hardware Stores Ltd. is an independent home improvement retailer located in Canada. Co-founded by Walter Hachborn in 1964, and headquartered in St. Jacobs, Ontario, the company has close to 1,100 stores that operate under one of four banners: Home Hardware, Home Hardware Building Centre, Home Building Centre, and Home Furniture.

  4. List of oldest buildings and structures in Halifax, Nova Scotia

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    Robertson's Hardware & Warehouse 1675 Lower Water Street Victorian-style brick commercial complex built in three sections; housed hardware and ship’s chandlery; part of Maritime Museum of the Atlantic: 1860-1880 Queen Street fire house 1252 Queen Street Oldest fire station building remaining in Halifax; now a private residence 1877 Halifax ...

  5. Hardware store - Wikipedia

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    There are three major hardware companies in Australia: Bunnings, Mitre 10 and Home Hardware. Home Hardware is a retailers' co-operative and has many banners which store owners trade under. Since the acquisition of Bunnings by Wesfarmers in 1994, the big-box store concept has changed how new hardware stores are built.

  6. Home Hardware (Australia) - Wikipedia

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    Home is known for its distinctive advertisements with two animated dog mascots: Rusty (voiced by Vic Plume) and Sandy (voiced by Greg Fleet), often making fun of or pointing out perceived flaws of another unnamed hardware store — usually implied to be Bunnings. Home nicknames its catalogues "dogalogues", in reference to Rusty and Sandy.

  7. Hardware (mechanical and construction) - Wikipedia

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    Hardware store. Yarkand.. Hardware (some types also known as household hardware) is equipment, generally used in machines, in construction or in any built good, that can be touched or held by hand such as keys, locks, nuts, screws, washers, hinges, latches, handles, wire, chains, belts, plumbing supplies, electrical supplies, tools, utensils, cutlery and machine parts.

  8. History of the lumber industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    As commodities, tools and building supplies steadily flowed into Virginia, home construction advanced, producing sturdy foundations upon which hewn timbers were erected, the exterior covered with clapboard, and the interior coated with wainscoting. By 1612, clay was being dredged from the James and Chickahominy Rivers.

  9. Allen B. Wilson - Wikipedia

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    Allen Benjamin Wilson circa 1856 Portrait of Allen Benjamin Wilson Allen Benjamin Wilson. Allen Benjamin Wilson (1823–1888) was an American inventor famous for designing, building and patenting some of the first successful sewing machines. [1]