Harris's instrument was originally made from a type of wood composite known as hardboard ( Masonite in the United States and Australia ).

The first works to incorporate electric light were his " Icons " series: eight colored shallow, boxlike square constructions made from various materials such as wood, Formica, or Masonite.

Masonite is a type of hardboard made of steam-cooked and pressure-molded wood fibers in a process invented by William H. Mason.

Masonite is formed using the Mason method, in which wood chips are disintegrated by saturating them with 100psi steam, then increasing the steam or air pressure to 400psi and suddenly releasing them through an orifice to atmospheric pressure.

Unlike other composite wood panels, no formaldehyde-based resins are used to bind the fibers in Masonite.

Competitors to fiber cement cladding include products made from vinyl, polyvinyl chloride, wood composite products ( such as hardboard and Masonite ) and aluminum siding

The table is 2. 74 m ( 9 ft ) long, 1. 52 m ( 5 ft ) wide, and 76 cm ( 30 inch ) high with a Masonite ( a type of hardboard ) or similarly manufactured timber, layered with a smooth, low-friction coating.

The Masonite Corporation entered the door business as a supplier of facings in 1972, and was purchased in 2001 by Premdor Corporation, a door maker, from its former parent International Paper ; it no longer supplies generic hardboard.

He recalled, " It had gut strings and it was one of them — not Gene Autry or a Roy Rogers — but it was made out of Masonite, with the little stencils on it, you know?

Masonite was invented in 1924 in Laurel, Mississippi, by William H. Mason, who was a friend and protégé of inventor Thomas Edison.

In the 1930s and 1940s Masonite was used for many applications including doors, roofing, walls, desktops, and canoes.

Masonite was also a popular protective backing for wooden console stereo and television cabinets, from the 1960s to the 1980s.

The jury found that IP's Masonite siding was defective.

The company was created by Wally Byam, who began building trailers out of Masonite in his backyard in Los Angeles during the late 1920s.

It was sold again in turn to the Albion Lumber Company, in 1930 to the Southern Pacific Land Company, and in 1948 to the Masonite Corporation, together with the land stretching from what is now the park to the coast.

Major employers are the natural gas industry, DuPont, Global-Tungsten and Powders ( former Sylvania ), Masonite, and Cargill Regional Beef, Wyalusing.

Masonite is also a popular choice for cake boards for professional cake decorators, due to its being a natural product and being strong enough to support multiple tiered creations, such as wedding cakes.

The museum's holdings include many of Thomas Eakins's sketches and studies related to his paintings of Rush, along with the most famous painting: William Rush Carving his Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River ( aka William Rush and His Model ), 1876 – 77, oil on canvas ( mounted on Masonite ), 20 1 / 8 x 26 1 / 8 inches ( 51. 1 x 66. 4 cm ).

To a lesser extent, Masonite is used in guitar bodies, most notably by Danelectro.

He has served on numerous corporate boards including the Bank of Montreal, Barrick Gold Corporation, Canada Northwest Energy Ltd., Masonite International and TrizecHahn Corporation.

After some success with this, she started painting on various other surfaces such as pulp boards ( beaverboards ), cookie sheets, and Masonite.

The last names " Flintstone " and " Rubble ", as well as other common Bedrock surnames such as " Shale " and " Quartz ", are in line with these puns, as are the names of Bedrock's celebrities: " Gary Granite " ( Cary Grant ), " Stony Curtis " ( Tony Curtis ), " Ed Sulleyrock / Sulleystone " ( Ed Sullivan ), " Rock Pile / Quarry / Hudstone " ( Rock Hudson ), " Ann-Margrock " ( Ann-Margret ), " Jimmy Darrock " ( James Darren ), " Alvin Brickrock " ( Alfred Hitchcock ), " Perry Masonry / Masonite " ( Perry Mason as played by Raymond Burr ), " Mick Jadestone and The Rolling Boulders " ( Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones ), " Eppy Brianstone " ( Brian Epstein ) and " The Beau Brummelstones " ( The Beau Brummels ).

Paper is a common surface but this medium can be used on other surfaces including wood, metal, hardboard ( often known as " masonite ), MDF, canvas and glass.

LP also manufacturers industrial wood products, such as hardboard and medium density fiberboard, which are used by furniture and cabinet makers.

Unlike solid wood, hardboard is very homogeneous with no grain.

Engineered wood products commonly used in furniture making include plywood, hardboard, millboard, chipboard, and medium-density fiberboard.

Products exempt from the ISPM 15 are made from alternative material, like paper, plastic or wood panel products ( i. e. OSB, hardboard, and plywood ).

Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.

The wood was old, the paint alligatored.

`` Finally, all I needed was to throw a little piece of red wood that looked like a firecracker and that dumb dog would run ki-yi-ing for his life ''.

The road leading south along the river was shaded with old trees, and in the moonlight the silvery landscape was like a setting for trolls and wood gods rather than the Hudson River Valley of his boyhood memories.

and he could tell, simply by the feel of it, whether it was made of wood, iron, cloth, rubber, and so on.

The sound of his head striking the solid wood was an ultimate, sudden-end sound.

Yet everywhere else sameness was stucco and wood in square blocks -- like fortresses perched against the slant of the hill, rising with the hill to the top where the church was and beyond that to the cemetery.

He was an artisan, a man who studied his trade and developed his craftsmanship the way a goldsmith or a wood carver did.

The Greek abacus was a table of wood or marble, pre-set with small counters in wood or metal for mathematical calculations.

The mixture was then formed and pressed into wood forms, producing rows of dried earth bricks that would then be laid across a support structure of wood and plastered into place with more adobe.

The Finns called ( and still call ) this month huhtikuu, or ' Burnwood Month ', when the wood for beat and burn clearing of farmland was felled.

The simplest alcohol is methanol,, which was formerly obtained by the distillation of wood and, therefore, is called " wood alcohol ".

The first of these groups was formed in a wood outside Milan by three noble Milanese, Alexander Grivelli, Antonio Petrasancta, and Albert Besuzzi, who were joined by others, including some priests.

The largest piece of burr wood was again a dining table for eight.

Andrea Andreani ( 1540 – 1623 ) was an Italian engraver on wood, who was among the first printmakers in Italy to use chiaroscuro, which required multiple colours.

The main character, Père Heb, was a blunderer with a huge belly ; three teeth ( one of stone, one of iron, and one of wood ); a single, retractable ear ; and a misshapen body.

He points out that Shrine 261 is not strictly analogous to the Ark of the Covenant: it can only be said that the Anubis Shrine is " ark-like ", constructed of wood, gilded and gessoed, stored within a sacred tomb, " guarding " the treasury of the tomb ( and not the primary focus of that environment ), that it contains compartments within it that store and hold sacred objects, that it has a figure of Anubis on its lid, and that it was carried by two staves permanently inserted into rings at its base and borne by eight priests in the funerary procession to Tutankhamun's tomb.

The oldest known adhesive, dated to approximately 200, 000 BC, is from spear stone flakes glued to a wood with birch-bark-tar, which was found in central Italy.

In the late 19th century in Switzerland, casein was first used as a wood glue.