Don’t Forget the Connectors Structural connectors are designed to hold framing members to the foundation and to one another.

Paul Revere forged the copper spikes and bolts that held the planks in place and the copper sheathing that protected the hull. Thus armed, she first put to sea in July 1798 and saw her first ...

Unfortunately, a layer of copper sheathing prevented proper implantation. While the bomb did end up detonating (with Lee safely away), it did no damage to its target. It took nearly 90 years ...

Each strip, before going to the sheathing machine, passes through this operation, which consists in slightly bending its edge and grooving its centre. The bobbins, of prepared copper, are then ...

At the suspected Guerrero site, they’ve found some other promising artifacts, including a piece of ceramic plate and copper sheathing. The Guerrero was known to have a copper-covered hull, which was ...

Astoria’s early days come alive when you step aboard “Old 300” and the Astoria Trolley. For just a buck, you can enjoy a ...

The threads of this screw were turned from solid brass on a lathe. Two box-shaped pans were formed by folding copper sheeting and soldering the edges. A pivot point for the bottom end of the screw to ...

Mr Bull contacted an expert on copper sheathing, John Bingeman, who said the stamp was likely put on by workers at Mines Royal, who produced the sheets which were later hammered on to the ship's hull.

Muntz metal, so well known, is composed of 60 parts copper and 40 parts of zinc. Muntz obtained a patent in England for the application of brass sheathing for ships, and when he died a few years ...

These relics of HMS Bounty are sheathing nails that were used to fix protective copper sheathing to hull. After Fletcher Christian and the mutineers arrived at Pitcairn they stripped the Bounty of ...

A few were on papyrus. One especially intriguing intact scroll engraved on copper sheeting identified over sixty sites of buried treasure. The various texts were bewildering--previously unknown ...

Daguerreotypes produced highly detailed images on copper sheeting plated with a thin coat of silver. According to Library of Congress, exposure times for early period daguerreotypes could be a ...