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  2. Roof shingle - Wikipedia

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    A shingle roof in Zakopane, Poland. With an area of 6000 m 2 (1½ acres), it was one of the largest wooden shingle roofs in Europe. A roof’s shingles are a roof covering consisting of individual overlapping elements. These elements are typically flat, rectangular shapes laid in courses from the bottom edge of the roof up, with each successive ...

  3. Caryatid - Wikipedia

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    An atlas or atlantid or telamon is a male version of a caryatid, i.e., a sculpted male statue serving as an architectural support. Etymology

  4. Atlas Roofing Co. v. Occupational Safety and Health Review ...

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    Atlas Roofing Company, Inc. v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, 430 U.S. 442 (1977), was a United States Supreme Court decision in administrative law.The decision held that the Seventh Amendment to the US Constitution did not require a jury trial to enforce the civil penalties for violating a federal "public rights" statute, allowing enforcement by an administrative agency.

  5. John Calvin Jureit - Wikipedia

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    John Calvin Jureit (July 24, 1918 – September 9, 2005) was an American civil engineer and the inventor of the Gang Nail connector plate, used in building construction specifically for the joining of timber truss joints of roof, floor trusses and prefabricated wall panels. This invention has been widely credited for the boom in affordable ...

  6. Atlas - Wikipedia

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    An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a continent or region of Earth. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form

  7. List of Italian inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Amici prism: invented by Giovan Battista Amici; Amici roof prism: invented by Giovan Battista Amici [41] Anatomical theatre: used for teaching anatomy in early modern universities; the first one being at the university of Padova (1595). [42] Anemometer: developed by Leon Battista Alberti in 1450. [43]

  8. Mansard roof - Wikipedia

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    A mansard roof on the Château de Dampierre, by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, great-nephew of François Mansart. A mansard or mansard roof (also called French roof or curb roof) is a multi-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper, and often punctured by dormer windows.

  9. A-frame building - Wikipedia

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    The Bennati House, in Lake Arrowhead, California. Rudolph Schindler's original A-frame design, 1934. An example of an A-frame house in Gillette, Wyoming Traditional A-frame thatched house (palheiro), Santana, Madeira, Portugal An A-frame house owned and restored by Nicky Panicci in the Hollywood Hills, an example of an architectural A-frame.