10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CORRUGATED IRON»
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corrugated iron in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
corrugated iron and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Corrugated Iron: Building on the Frontier
When Henry Palmer of the London Dock Company was granted the first patent for indented or corrugated metallic sheets in 1829, he little realized what he was starting.
Adam Mornement, Simon Holloway, 2007
2
Corrugated Iron: Building on the Frontier
When Henry Palmer of the London Dock Company was granted the first patent for “indented or corrugated metallic sheets” in 1829, he little realized what he was starting.
Adam Mornement, Simon Holloway, 2007
3
Corrugated Iron Buildings
Prefabricated corrugated iron buildings have been produced by manufacturers in Britain since the middle of the nineteenth century.
4
Equipment and methods for improved smokedrying of fish in ...
The fire-box has a hole near the bottom 45 * 45 om (18 x 18 in) for inserting the
fuel and to control the fire* This hole is constructed by fixing an iron strip into the
front wall, and it can be covered by a 60 x 50 om (24 x 20 in) corrugated iron
sheet ...
5
The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900
21 Today Ibadan is at one end of a shanty-town corridor of 70 million people.22
Its roofs, to judge from aerial photographs, are still of rusted corrugated iron.
Corrugated iron was not just an urban technology; it was used to replace thatch
roofs ...
6
A Place of Their Own: The Men and Women of War Service Land ...
It is a day I will always remember, he thought as he lay on his camp bed, listening
to the wind whistling through the gaps in the corrugated iron-the day he and his
brother'in'law Scottie had come over with a heap of timber and galvanised iron ...
By 1929 so many cocoa farmers in Yorubaland had re-roofed their houses with
imported sheets of corrugated iron that these iron sheets had become symbols of
the prosperity of the region.26 Other work in the colonial economy was less ...
Toyin Falola, Matthew M. Heaton, 2008
8
Cheap, Quick, & Easy: Imitative Architectural Materials, ...
1900, as Design 3021, p. 29. Hagley Museum and Library. and bolted them to a
corrugated-iron base.12 The results could sometimes be very elaborate, in fact
far more elaborate than the German prototypes, as the 1889 Council Bluffs, Iowa,
...
Pamela Hemenway Simpson, 1999
9
A Treasury of Carpentry
THIS class of construction, consisting of walls composed of light braced frames
covered on the outside with either weather- boarding, matchboarding, or
corrugated iron, and upon the inside with matchboarding, asbestos paper, or
plaster, ...
10
Cubism & Australian Art
oil on plywood on corrugated iron 53.2 x 106.8 cm National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne Purchased 1958 Eric Wilson Study for Theme for a mural c. 1941 oil
and enamel on plywood 7.5 x 16.5 cm National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ...
Lesley Harding, Sue Cramer, 2009
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CORRUGATED IRON»
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corrugated iron is used in the context of the following news items.
Iconic house set to be demolished
A rusty roof and contrasting paint colours make the corrugated iron clad house a real eye-catcher for drivers travelling through Appleby. «The Nelson Mail, Jul 15»
Chelsea Farm at Baulkham Hills is on the market
Underneath the home's corrugated iron roof are its original timber shingles. It has its original fireplaces and sandstone flagging. In the 1970s ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
Farmers, workers try to find common ground in Mpumalanga
Their makeshift kitchen – a tiny corrugated iron shack erected next to the hall – provides some warmth from a coal stove and a brazier made ... «News24, Jul 15»
Quake-hit Nepal gears up to tackle stunting in children
... living under corrugated iron sheets with her husband and five others after two major earthquakes reduced her mud-and-brick home to rubble. «Business Insider, Jul 15»
Gogo, 101, loses home
Family members said a spark set clothing alight and then gutted the three corrugated iron structures attached to the main one-room house. «News24, Jul 15»
For one Nepal cricketer, sport becomes post-tremor motivation: 'I will …
Next to the site of their razed home, the family have now built a temporary house from bricks and mud, with a corrugated iron roof and a plaster ... «The National, Jul 15»
Review of East is East at Churchill Theatre Bromley
... watches Coronation Street), complete with only one corrugated iron bin (this was in the days before recycling and a million different coloured ... «LondonTheatre1, Jul 15»
Lucy Rose: “I just wanna keep going forwards, even if it's only a tiny …
From a corrugated iron hut in Salt Lake City to being back in her bedroom, Lucy Rose's new album has seen her embark upon all sorts of ... «DIY Magazine, Jul 15»
A Tribute to Joni Mitchell
They stormed the corrugated iron barriers and broke through, as Mitchell sang her new song “Woodstock … we are stardust, we are golden …”. «EcoWatch, Jul 15»
Are dash cams a good idea?
Rubbish was flying out of the trays and then a large piece of corrugated iron flew up and out, narrowly missing our car. When we rang the ... «Practical Motoring, Jul 15»