Practically all bulky housing products can now be ordered in standard units palletized or unitized for mechanical handling -- including lumber, asphalt shingles, glass block, face brick, plaster, lime, hardboard, gypsum wallboard and sheathing, cement, insulation sheathing, floor tile, acoustical tile, plaster base, and asbestos shingles.

After Captain Docherty sent Arleigh Griffith for Hoag he was able to complete his detailed inspection of the third floor and to receive a report from his man covering the floors above before Griffith returned, buoyed up by a brief stop for another glass of champagne.

The building was dedicated in 1954 and is possibly the first financial institution in America to use glass walls and an open floor plan.

He relied heavily on Augustus Pugin for the sumptuous and distinctive Gothic interiors, including wallpapers, carvings, stained glass, floor tiles, metalwork and furniture.

Founded by German merchant Georg Wertheim ( 1857 – 1939 ), designed by architect Alfred Messel ( 1853 – 1909 ), opened in 1897 and extended several times over the following 40 years, it ultimately possessed a floor area double that of the Reichstag, a 330-metre-long granite and plate glass facade along Leipziger Straße, 83 elevators, three escalators, 1, 000 telephones, 10, 000 lamps, five kilometres of pneumatic tubing for moving items from the various departments to the packing area, and a separate entrance directly from the nearby U-Bahn station.

This greenhouse has twice the floor area of the Palm House and is the world's largest surviving Victorian glass structure.

At some point, Dalí had a glass floor installed in a room near his studio.

The building's sides are glass and charcoal-painted steel ; the floor, of brick, is not flush with the ground but sits 10 inches above.

Reflecting elements, from active and passive daylighting collectors, such as light shelves, lighter wall and floor colors, mirrored wall sections, interior walls with upper glass panels, and clear or translucent glassed hinged doors and sliding glass doors take the captured light and passively reflect it further inside.

Tiffany worked on the East Room, the Blue Room, the Red Room, the State Dining Room and the Entrance Hall, refurnishing, repainting in decorative patterns, installing newly designed mantelpieces, changing to wallpaper with dense patterns and, of course, adding Tiffany glass to gaslight fixtures, windows and adding the opalescent floor to ceiling glass screen in the Entrance Hall.

1971 – 1976 model full-size station wagons featured a ' Clamshell ' design where the rear power-operated glass slid up into the roof as the tailgate ( manually or with power assist ), dropped below the load floor.

* Glass floor, as in glass bottomed elevators

In San Francisco, the floor plans of " marina style " houses often include a central patio, a miniature version of an open courtyard, sometimes covered with glass or a translucent material.

The building parts have also been listed as a series of historic monuments by government decree of June 26, 2003, including its roofs and belfry, main hall, glass roof, the staircase, corridor serving the first floor, the rooms on the first floor ( including decoration ): the wedding room, the VIP lounge, the lounge of the council and the cabinet room.

The exhibit includes species that are usually on the jungle floor including stag beetles, scorpions, and fire-bellied toads, but behind glass.

Rich brown glazed tiles are used for the ground floor exterior walls with coloured stained glass in the fan lights.

The exterior is understated, but the interior is surprisingly elaborate, including a stained glass dome over a mosaic tile floor.

It is divided into three distinct sets of bays ; the central section is a four-columned, blind triumphal arch ( based on the Arch of Constantine in Rome ) containing one large, pedimented glass door reached from the rusticated ground floor by an external, curved double staircase.

His collaboration with Pugin ( who designed furniture, stained glass, sculpture, wallpaper, decorative floor tiles, mosaic work etc.

Her hand shakes so violently that she loses her grip on the glass, which drops to the floor and shatters.

As she reaches for the lighter, her other hand strikes the drinking glass, which falls to the floor and shatters.

This design, located on the 28th floor, is known for several design features including the men's washroom, which features urinals facing glass, and a spectacular view of the Hong Kong cityscape.

An extension of one glass plate needed for the Liquid Crystal Display was used as a substrate to mount the required chips based on a new hybrid technology.

This is an historical remnant from the early days of CRT television when CRT screens were manufactured on the bottoms of glass bottles, a direct extension of cathode ray tubes used in oscilloscopes.

The plan to re-develop the historic Stables Market led to a steel and glass extension built on the edges of the site in 2006 and increased the market's capacity.

Construction commenced in March 2011 on the extension which will consist of a glass, wooden and aluminium exterior and " ribbon " effect roof.

The centre was also covered in a glass roof and ( where the new extension was built ) two multi-storey car parks were constructed at each end of the centre, effectively privatising, roofing and enclosing the old Top Town area of Grimsby.

The extension was thus done in an overall Norman style of design that was typical in Quebec at the time, and had a similar long, covered verandah, a cross hall, and a new staircase capped by an ornate stained glass lantern.

More plans were unveiled in September 2011 by Network Rail, along with an announcement that the owner of the Buchanan Galleries shopping mall-Land Securities had been chosen as development partner for the station, which will see the existing 1970s hotel extension which currently fronts the George Square entrance of the station demolished and replaced by a glass atrium.

An extension of the spirit level is the bull's eye level: a circular, flat-bottomed device with the liquid under a slightly convex glass face which indicates the center clearly.

There are also two new public squares, residential apartments, a bus interchange and a further 2000-space car park on the opposite side of the ring road, linked by a glass footbridge, which replaces one of the earlier Shires car parks that was demolished to make way for the new extension.

The most obvious external change is the blocky two-story glass extension on one half of the roof.

The extension is glass covered in the plaza area and curved to contrast both wings either side and to continue the glass found on both sides high up the building.

For many years the northern panel of the screen was the sole example on any of the Morden extension stations to retain the 1920s " UD " lettering, the other stations ' screens having been replaced with plain glass over the years.

The difference between punching someone in anger and reaching for a glass is slight in terms of body organization-both rely on extension of the arm.

Image: Calgary Tower's Glass Floor. jpg | A view from the glass floor extension on the observation deck

The Moore Lamp was an extension of the well-known Geissler tube, which used glass tubes from which the air had been removed and a different gas inserted.

Subaru called this an " aircraft-inspired glass-to-glass canopy ," which was borrowed from the previous model Subaru Alcyone with an additional extension of glass covering the A-pillar.

By extension, other quenched states are called spin glass, orientational glass.

Internally, the facelift consists of an extension of the driver guard panel to include the On-Bus vault ( passengers now must put their hand through a gap in the panel to reach the vault ) and a slightly modified staircase separation wall, which now features a glass panel, presumably to improve the view of passengers sitting in the seat directly in front of the wall.

Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.

She was standing with her back to the glass door.

Though merely clear glass, it was a distinctive trade mark for an aspiring actor who hoped to imprint himself upon the memories of producers.

Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.

Another remained when an American Army car was recovered but with a broken glass.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

There was a glass pane in the front door, and through this he could see into a hallway where a plump woman with red hair was arranging flowers.

Spectra were also obtained from a sample in a spherical container which was made by blowing a bubble on the end of a capillary glass tube.

The light was filtered by the soft glass window of the thermostat thus ensuring that only light absorbed by the chlorine and not by the carbon tetrachloride could enter the reaction cell.

In Chicago, some time ago, Mr. H., age 27, a diabetic since he was six, stopped using insulin because he had bought a `` magic spike '' -- a glass tube about the size of a pencil filled with barium chloride worth a small fraction of a cent -- sold by the Vrilium Company of Chicago for $306 as a cure-all.

For mosquito bites a paste of half a glass of salt and half a glass of soda was made.

Just think of old Granther Stannard who pulled the teeth of Dark Younger ( her real name was Dorcas ), and because he bungled the job and left two protruding tusks she put such a hex on him that he thought his legs were made of glass.

I myself had been up there by seven o'clock, after mushrooms, since there'd been a week of rain which had stopped early that morning and the day was as clear as Sandwich glass.

Toward the end of his fourth hairy highball, while he was moodily making wet rings on the table-top with the bottom of the glass, he became aware that he was not alone.

I was proud of the new buildings which housed Diario now: the rotogravures, gleaming behind glass doors ; ;

He came through from the Fleet Bar, which was stag, with the ice cubes tinkling in a glass he carried.

He was drinking another glass of water.

It is a popular belief that alchemists made contributions to the " chemical " industries of the day — ore testing and refining, metalworking, production of gunpowder, ink, dyes, paints, cosmetics, leather tanning, ceramics, glass manufacture, preparation of extracts, liquors, and so on ( it seems that the preparation of aqua vitae, the " water of life ", was a fairly popular " experiment " among European alchemists ).

In an article he submitted for the medical journal The Lancet during World War I, Fleming described an ingenious experiment, which he was able to conduct as a result of his own glass blowing skills, in which he explained why antiseptics were killing more soldiers than infection itself during World War I. Antiseptics worked well on the surface, but deep wounds tended to shelter anaerobic bacteria from the antiseptic agent, and antiseptics seemed to remove beneficial agents produced that protected the patients in these cases at least as well as they removed bacteria, and did nothing to remove the bacteria that were out of reach.

The characters and lands created by the children had newspapers, magazines and chronicles which were written in extremely tiny books, with writing so small it was difficult to read without a magnifying glass.

It was one of the principal seats of the glass industry in Indiana – plate glass, lamp chimneys, mirrors, & c., were once manufactured here.