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This kitchen measured 1.9 by 3.4 metres (6 ft 3 in by 11 ft 2 in), and was built to optimize kitchen efficiency and lower building costs. The design was the result of detailed time-motion studies and interviews with future tenants to identify what they needed from their kitchens.
In 1954, Dee Horton and Lew Hewitt invented the first sliding automatic door. The automatic door used a mat actuator. In 1960, they co-founded Horton Automatics Inc and placed the first commercial automatic sliding door on the market. [5] With the invention of the Gunn diode, microwave motion detectors became common in automatic doors in the 1970s.
In the Hauran in Syria where timber is scarce, the doors were made of stone, and one measuring 1.63 by 0.79 m (64 by 31 in) is in the British Museum; the band on the meeting stile shows that it was one of the leaves of a double door. At Kuffeir near Bostra in Syria, Burckhardt found stone doors, 2.74 to 3.048 m (8.99 to 10.00 ft) high, being ...
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Tràng Tiền Plaza is a shopping center with 3 facades located on streets of Tràng Tiền, Hàng Bài and Hai Bà Trưng in Hoàn Kiếm district, the downtown of Hanoi, Vietnam. The complex's construction began on April 30, 2000 as Vietnam celebrated the 25th anniversary of The liberation of the south of Vietnam.
A Kitchen Cabinet is a group of unofficial or private advisers to a political leader. [1] The term was originally used by political opponents of President of the United States Andrew Jackson to describe his ginger group, the collection of unofficial advisors he consulted in parallel to the United States Cabinet (the "parlor cabinet") following his purge of the cabinet at the end of the Eaton ...
A typical false door to an Egyptian tomb. The deceased is shown above the central niche in front of a table of offerings, and inscriptions listing offerings for the deceased are carved along the side panels. Louvre Museum. A false door, or recessed niche, [1] is an artistic representation of a door which does not function like a real door. They ...