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• light-frame construction — System of construction using many small and closely spaced members that can be assembled by nailing. It is the standard for U.S. suburban housing. The balloon frame house with wood cladding, invented in Chicago in the 1840s, aided the rapid… …   Universalium

• Wood — /wood/, n. 1. Grant, 1892 1942, U.S. painter. 2. Leonard, 1860 1927, U.S. military doctor and political administrator. * * * I Hard, fibrous material formed by the accumulation of secondary xylem produced by the vascular cambium. It is the… …   Universalium

• wood — wood1 woodless, adj. /wood/, n. 1. the hard, fibrous substance composing most of the stem and branches of a tree or shrub, and lying beneath the bark; the xylem. 2. the trunks or main stems of trees as suitable for architectural and other… …   Universalium

• light — light1 lightful, adj. lightfully, adv. /luyt/, n., adj., lighter, lightest, v., lighted or lit, lighting. n. 1. something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light. 2. Physics …   Universalium

• Cordwood construction — For the method of electronic component assembly, see Printed circuit board# Cordwood construction. A section of a cordwood home. Cordwood construction (also called cordwood masonry, stackwall construction or stackwood construction ) is a term… …   Wikipedia

• building construction — Techniques and industry involved in the assembly and erection of structures. Early humans built primarily for shelter, using simple methods. Building materials came from the land, and fabrication was dictated by the limits of the materials and… …   Universalium

• Framing (construction) — Framing, in construction known as light frame construction, is a building technique based around structural members, usually called studs, which provide a stable frame to which interior and exterior wall coverings are attached, and covered by a… …   Wikipedia

• Bicycle frame — Steel frame of 2000 LeMond Zurich road racing bicycle mounted in a work stand …   Wikipedia

• Greenbury Point Light — Infobox Lighthouse caption = Greenbury Point Light in 1885 (USCG) location = Greenbury Point at the mouth of the Severn River in Annapolis, Maryland coordinates = coord|38.975|N|76.455|W|type:landmark (approximate) yearlit = 1848 automated =… …   Wikipedia

• Cross Ledge Light — ca. 1910 (detail of postcard) Location middle Delaware Bay Coordinates …   Wikipedia

• Gull Rocks Light — Infobox Lighthouse caption = Gull Rocks Light showing skeleton tower (USCG) location = Narragansett Bay near Newport, Rhode Island coordinates = coord|41|30|8.5|N|71|19|59|W|region:US type:landmark yearlit = 1887 automated = 1960 yeardeactivated …   Wikipedia