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On February 4, 1805, Napoleon I announced that in Paris for house numbering a distinction should be made between even numbers (on the right side) and odd numbers (on the left side); the direction of the streets is oriented from upstream to downstream for streets parallel to the Seine, and from the banks to the north and south for streets ...
A Dutch door with the top half open, in South Africa Woman at a Dutch Door, 1645, by Samuel van Hoogstraten Old half-door in East Crosherie, Wigtownshire, Scotland. A Dutch door (American English), stable door (British English), or half door (Hiberno-English) is a door divided in such a fashion that the bottom half may remain shut while the top half opens.
The units were however redefined many times – during Henry VIII's time standard yards and ells made of brass were manufactured, during Elizabeth I's time these were replaced with standards made of bronze and in 1742, after scientific comparisons showed a variation of up to 0.2% from the mean, a definitive standard yard was proposed (but not ...
A revolving door in Turkey (counter-clockwise rotation) A revolving door typically consists of three or four doors that hang on a central shaft and rotate around a vertical axis within a cylindrical enclosure. To use a revolving door, a person enters the enclosure between two of the doors and then moves continuously to the desired exit while ...
Here’s what those little doors in old houses were for! What People Think the Doors For. ... and it would’ve made since to be able to stow a card table in a hall closet.
A sliding glass door, sometimes called an Arcadia door or patio door, is a door made of glass that slides open and sometimes has a screen (a removable metal mesh that covers the door). Australian doors are a pair of plywood swinging doors often found in Australian public houses.
It was invented by American scientist Joseph Henry in 1831. [64] 1831 Doorbell (electric) A doorbell is a signaling device commonly found near a door. It commonly emits a ringing sound to alert the occupant of the building to a visitor's presence. The electric doorbell was invented by Joseph Henry in 1831. [25] [65] 1833 Sewing machine (lock ...
A Brief History of Forestry in Europe, the United States and Other Countries (Toronto, 1911) Hidy, R. W. et al. Timber and Men: The Weyerhauser Story (1964). Miller, Char, ed. American Forests: Nature, Culture, and Politics (UP of Kansas, 1997). Pyne, Stephen. Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire (Princeton UP, 1982 ...