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more numerous and smaller, such as balloon, platform, light-steel framing or, even pre-built framing. Light-frame construction using standardized dimensional...

2017 Samsung poll ranked Girl with Balloon as the United Kingdom's number one favourite artwork. In 2018, a framed copy of the work was shredded after...

defined by the wall, floor, and roof construction such as log, timber framed, balloon framed, or stacked plank. Some types of historic houses are called plank...

timber-frame house, partly solid, balloon frame, 16th century Zandtstraße 92/94 – timber-frame house, partly solid, balloon frame, 16th century Zandtstraße/corner...

KUHF-FM Houston. Balloon Frame Houses. The MMC Glossary 2008 - The Modern Construction Glossary of MMC and offsite terms including Framed Construction. Canadian...

A hot air balloon is a lighter-than-air aircraft consisting of a bag, called an envelope, which contains heated air. Suspended beneath is a gondola or...

use of wood as the predominant building material in a style called balloon frame. More than two-thirds of the structures in Chicago at the time of the...

The Balloon Boy hoax occurred on October 15, 2009, when a homemade helium-filled gas balloon shaped to resemble a silver flying saucer was released into...

steel plow, Joseph Dart (Dart's Elevator), and George Washington Snow's balloon-frame construction are some of innovations that made significant, global impact...

framing. Sometimes studs are long, as in balloon framing, where the studs extend two stories and carry a ledger which carries joists. Balloon framing...

circular saw led to the development of balloon framing which was the beginning of the decline of traditional timber framing. The 19th century saw the development...

technique of balloon framing Snifter, sometimes called a brandy balloon Trial balloon, action to covertly gauge public interest Balloon, a troop from...

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Indiana. It was built about 1857, and is a two-story, side hall plan balloon frame dwelling with Italianate style design elements. It has a front gable...

blocking is most critical in balloon framing, where a cavity may traverse multiple floors. More modern methods of platform-framing provide inherent fireblocking...

have been created live during an auction." His 2006 painting of Girl with Balloon unexpectedly self-destructed immediately after it was sold at auction....

A hopper balloon (simply hopper) is a small, one-person hot air balloon. Unlike a conventional hot air balloon where people ride inside a basket, there...

bar, but as of 2018 is only open in the evenings. The Hideout is a balloon-frame house built in 1881 as a boarding house for nearby factory workers....

added in the early 1900s. The Ira Jarvis House is a simple tri-gable balloon-frame I-house with a hall and parlor plan. It was listed on the National Register...

are the basic building blocks for such common structures as balloon-frame or platform-frame housing. Dimensional lumber made from softwood is typically...