The earliest bronze archeological finds in Indonesia date from 1 – 2 BCE, including flat plates probably suspended and struck by a wooden or bone mallet.

Before the development of the electric guitar and the use of synthetic materials, a guitar was defined as being an instrument having " a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides ".

In a common design, a metal horseshoe holds a flat wooden shoe in place.

Though using both flat wooden panel and stretched canvas paintings, Catholics traditionally have also favored images in the form of three-dimensional statuary, whereas in the East statuary is much less widely employed.

The lower part of the stay was about 500-800 mmm long and attached to a combined flat wooden turnblock and multi V jamb cleat called an angel ( maiden, virgin ).

A mandolin typically has a hollow wooden body with a tailpiece that holds one end of the strings, a floating bridge, a neck with a flat ( or slight radius ) fretted fingerboard, a nut, and mechanical tuning machines to accommodate metal strings.

Books with parchment pages were bound with strong wooden boards and clamped tightly shut by metal ( often brass ) clasps or leather straps ; this acted to keep the pages pressed flat despite humidity changes.

Finally, a large number of small poles, or a flat wooden board, will be required for the deck.

Books of instruction in the art of crystal gazing often suggest that the ball used should be perfectly spherical ( that is, without a flat bottom ) and should be supported in a wooden or metal stand.

Michelangelo created a flat wooden platform on brackets built out from holes in the wall, high up near the top of the windows.

The second is the wooden hanger, which consists of a flat piece of wood cut into a boomerang-like shape with the edges sanded down to prevent damage to the clothing, and a hook, usually of metal, protruding from the point.

The combination of massive castings and a wooden floor was not an ideal one, and after an accident involving one end of an engine beam crashing through the floor into a glass cutters flat below he soon relocated.

In order to prevent cattle trampling flat the gardens attached to the houses, village roads were enclosed with wooden fences and, later, with characteristic stone walls.

The brown butcher paper accessory pack contained sugar tablets, halazone water purification tablets ( for a brief period in 1945 ), a flat wooden spoon, a piece of candy-coated chewing gum, 3 " short " sample 3-packs or one " long " sample 9-pack of commercial-grade cigarettes and a book of 20 cardboard moisture-resistant matches, a paper-wrapped P-38 can opener printed with instructions for its proper use, and several sheets of toilet paper.

* One sundries can containing the accessory packet: ( Gum, toilet paper, a P-38 can opener, granulated salt, and a flat wooden spoon ) and the cigarette packet: ( one 9-pack of cigarettes and a book of matches ).

He was assigned to the tenements of the East End of Glasgow after the city was hit by storms in late 1968 and saw poverty of a sort he didn't know existed: a sick infant sleeping in a wooden box, in a damp-ridden room, a distracted old woman buying coal for a tenement flat that didn't have a coal fire.

The bier is a flat frame, traditionally wooden but sometimes of other materials.

As the first cabooses were wooden shanties erected on flat cars ( as early as the 1830s ,) they would have resembled the cook shack on the ( relatively flat ) deck of a ship, explaining the adoption and subsequent corruption of the nautical term.

In the beginning of the 19th century the now traditional Black Forest clock design, the " Schilduhr " ( Shield-clock ), was characterized by having a painted flat square wooden face behind which all the clockwork was attached.

Rural folk traditions in Bosnia include the shouted, polyphonic ganga and ravne pjesme ( flat song ) styles, as well as instruments like a droneless bagpipe, wooden flute and sargija.

The centre of the synagogue originally contained a high wooden bimah, but this was later replaced with a flat platform covered with expensive marble plates.

A sampan () is a relatively flat bottomed Chinese wooden boat from long.

In Zen Buddhism, the keisaku ( Japanese: 警策, Chinese: 香板, xiāng bǎn ; kyōsaku in the Soto school ) is a flat wooden stick or slat used during periods of meditation to remedy sleepiness or lapses of concentration.

It has a flat roof above the floor.

The first four, like the King's Chamber, have flat roofs formed by the floor of the chamber above, but the final chamber has a pointed roof.

# the cuticle which consists of several layers of flat, thin cells laid out overlapping one another as roof shingles,

What is left from the civilization, also called, are about 30 pyramidical structures built up in receding terraces ending in a flat roof ; some of them measured up to 20 meters in height.

In 1926, as the Fellows had become increasingly disenchanted with Waterhouse's Hall, Maurice Webb was brought in to remove the open roof, put in a flat ceiling and add two storeys of sets above.

* yellow tower of Storkyrkan on Stadsholmen, in front of the flat roof of the Stockholm Palace

In regions where there is little rain, an almost flat roof with a slight run-off provides adequate protection against an occasional downpour.

Adobe roofs are roofs of clay, mixed with binding material such as straw or animal hair, and plastered on lathes to form a flat or gently sloped roof, usually in areas of low rainfall.

* integration in a flat roof membrane using heat welding, e. g. PVC.

* mounting on a flat roof with a construction and additional weight to prevent uplift from wind.

The flat roof has a crenellated parapet.

In contrast to the dark, flat profile of the East Building, the North Building is white ( as the original building was ), with twelve concrete pylons on the roof which support the roof using 72 cables.

A flat or slope window used for daylighting, built into a roof structure that is out of reach.

Aguílar took charge of the church's construction and set about incorporating numerous design features not found at any other California Mission, including the use of a domed roof structure made of stone as opposed to the typical flat wood roof.

The principal advantage of the Zaschka machine is in its ability to remain motionless in the air for any length of time and to descend in a vertical line, so that a landing may be accomplished on the flat roof of a large house.

Skylights admit harsh direct overhead sunlight and glare either horizontally ( a flat roof ) or pitched at the same angle as the roof slope.

* A flat covering element for a roof, including

The tower was probably topped with a Norman pyramidal roof ; the current roof is flat.

One of the earliest surviving houses in the town is The Lawn, in front of the Civic Centre with its public tennis courts, in brown brick with three double-hung sash windows set back in reveals with flat arches, roof with parapet and porch of fluted doric columns, pilasters, entablature and semi-circular traceried fanlight.

He added an apse, in a Byzantine style, integrating it to the existing plain structure by substituting a waggon roof for the existing flat ceiling.

The above-ground structure was rectangular in shape, had sloping sides, a flat roof, was about four times as long as it was wide, and rose to at least 30 feet in height.