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Particleboard with veneer. Particle board, also known as particleboard or chipboard, is an engineered wood product, belonging to the wood-based panels, manufactured from wood chips and a synthetic, mostly formaldehyde-based resin or other suitable binder, which is pressed under a hot press, batch- or continuous- type, and produced. [1]
Another early version of the clipboard, known as the "memorandum file", was invented by American inventor George Henry Hohnsbeen in 1921, for which he was granted U.S. patent 1,398,591. [2] Related to the clipboard is the Shannon Arch File, which was developed around 1877. [1]
Chipboard may refer to: Particle board, a type of engineered wood known as chipboard in some countries; See also. White-lined chipboard, a grade of paperboard;
The biscuit joining system was invented in 1956 in Liestal, Switzerland, by Hermann Steiner.Steiner opened his carpenter's shop in 1944, and, in the middle of the 1950s, while looking for a simple means of joining the recently introduced chipboard, invented the Lamello joining system.
Natural cardboards can range from grey to light brown in color, depending on the specific product; dyes, pigments, printing, and coatings are available. The word cardboard has general use in English and French, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] but the term is deprecated in commerce and industry as not adequately defining a specific product. [ 3 ]
The Colorforms concept was developed by Harry and Patricia Kislevitz in 1951, [1] firmly rooted in the Modernist design ethos and reflecting the Color Field abstract style prevalent at the time. The basic concept behind Colorforms is the ability to adhere and reposition abstract and geometric color form shapes on random surfaces to create art.
A combination between a whiteboard and a cork bulletin board Original early 1960s ad for "Plasti-slate", the first whiteboard/dry erase board invented by Martin Heit. It has been widely reported that Korean War veteran and photographer Martin Heit and Albert Stallion, an employee at Alliance, a leading flat rolled steel sheet supplier should be credited with the invention of the whiteboard in ...
Crayola introduces the 24-color set of mini twistable crayons. Crayola introduces the 24-color set of Fun Effects mini twistable crayons containing 8 regular colors, 8 rainbow colors, and 8 eXtreme colors. 2005: Cranberry is renamed Blush and Brink Pink is renamed Pink Sherbert. 2006: Crayola introduces Heads n' Tails Crayons.