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  2. Sarah Boone - Wikipedia

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    On April 26, 1892, she obtained United States patent number 473,563 [1] for her improvements to the ironing board. Boone's ironing board was designed to improve the quality of ironing the sleeves and bodies of women's garments. The ironing board was very narrow, curved, and made of wood. The shape and structure allowed it to fit a sleeve and it ...

  3. Hertogin Hedwigepolder - Wikipedia

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    The Hertogin Hedwigepolder (often shortened to Hedwigepolder) was a polder between 1907 and 2022 in Zeeland, Netherlands. A small part of the polder is on Belgian territory. In 2005 it was decided to depolder the Hedwigepolder in order to restore the natural quality in the Western Scheldt. This decision was controversial in Zeeland and Dutch ...

  4. Ironing - Wikipedia

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    Ironing a shirt. Ironing is the use of an iron, usually heated, to remove wrinkles and unwanted creases from fabric. [1] The heating is commonly done to a temperature of 180–220 °C (360–430 °F), depending on the fabric. [2] Ironing works by loosening the bonds between the long-chain polymer molecules in the fibres of the material. While ...

  5. Polder - Wikipedia

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    The oldest extant polder is the Achtermeer polder, from 1533. As a result of flooding disasters, water boards called waterschap (when situated more inland) or hoogheemraadschap (near the sea, mainly used in the Holland region) [ 5 ] [ 6 ] were set up to maintain the integrity of the water defences around polders, maintain the waterways inside a ...

  6. Flevopolder - Wikipedia

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    The Flevopolder is an island polder forming the bulk of Flevoland, a province of the Netherlands. Created by land reclamation, its northeastern part was drained in 1955 and the remainder—the southwest—in 1968. Unlike other major polders, it is surrounded by lakes and below-sea-level channels.

  7. List of companies of the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    Ironing boards and covers P A Wolters Kluwer: Industrials Business support services Alphen aan den Rijn: 1836 Publisher and information services P A Zeeman: Consumer goods Apparel retailers Alphen aan den Rijn: 1967 Clothing P A