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  2. Masonite - Wikipedia

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    Masonite board Back side of a masonite board Isorel, c. 1920 Quartrboard, [1] Masonite Corporation, c. 1930. Masonite, also called Quartboard or pressboard, [2] is a type of engineered wood made of steam-cooked and pressure-molded wood or paper fibers. The fibers form a stiff, dense material in a range of weights.

  3. Masonite International - Wikipedia

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    Masonite entered the door business in 1972, when it began producing wood-composite molded door facings and other components. After a number of acquisitions, the company became part of International Paper in 1988. [7] [8] As Masonite’s door division steadily grew, the company formed an alliance with Premdor, a Toronto-based door supplier.

  4. William H. Mason - Wikipedia

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    He was educated in engineering at the Cornell University.Mason was actually apprenticed under Thomas A. Edison.. Masonite was first formed by W. Mason using the so called Mason method, [3] in which wood chips are disintegrated by saturating them with 100-pound-per-square-inch (690 kPa) steam, then increasing the steam or air pressure to 400 pounds per square inch (2,800 kPa) and suddenly ...

  5. Masonic Temple - Wikipedia

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    Goose and Gridiron tavern, where the United Grand Lodge of England was founded in 1717. In the early years of Freemasonry, from the 17th through the 18th centuries, it was most common for Masonic Lodges to form their Masonic Temples either in private homes or in the private rooms of public taverns or halls which could be regularly rented out for Masonic purposes.

  6. Paintings on Masonite - Wikipedia

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    Paintings on Masonite is a series of 27 abstract paintings made by Joan Miró using the type of proprietary hardboard known as masonite, just after the Spanish Civil War started on 18 July 1936. These works break with his earlier phase which was known as his wild paintings period.

  7. Hardboard - Wikipedia

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    Masonite is produced using the wet process only. In Europe today, the same type of fibreboard product generated by the wet process, is named as Natural Fibre Board , and this is a registered trademark.

  8. The Broken Column - Wikipedia

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    The Broken Column (La Columna Rota in Spanish) is an oil on masonite painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, painted in 1944 shortly after she had spinal surgery to correct on-going problems which had resulted from a serious traffic accident when she was 18 years old.

  9. Masonic lodge - Wikipedia

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    Masonic lodge in the City of Brussels, Belgium. A Masonic lodge, also called a private lodge or constituent lodge, is the basic organisational unit of Freemasonry.. It is also a commonly used term for a building where Freemasons meet and hold their meetings.