A carriage house or coach house is a dwelling unit that is typically used as a secondary residence on the same lot as a primary structure, such as a single-family home. The original carriage houses were built to house horse carriages or stagecoaches. As the use of automobiles replaced horse...
In a time when we have so much access to communication, there is even more room for miscommunication. Why is it that we use our phones to read between the lines? Maybe it's all the easy access we have to other people. We have instant means of communication with other people which ...
Telecommunications has been an important part of our culture since the invention of the telegraph in the 1800s. It started as a form of long distance communication. The telegraph provided a way to send messages to people far away, that was faster than sending mail. Over the course of the ...
and New Deal government programs increased the number of construction jobs. In that decade, significant professional careers were accounting, law and medicine. The Great Depression lasted during most of the 1930s; however, as the country began its slow progress toward economic recovery...
Monetary inflation generally refers to an increase in the broad money supply, known as M2. In other words, it’s not about prices going up; it’s about the amount of money itself going up. Broad money supply, M2, refers to all of the various bank deposits that exist in the system, ...
Monetary inflation generally refers to an increase in the broad money supply, known as M2. In other words, it’s not about prices going up; it’s about the amount of money itself going up. Broad money supply, M2, refers to all of the various bank deposits that exist in the system, ...
Bicycle, two-wheeled steerable machine that is pedaled by the rider’s feet. On a standard bicycle the wheels are mounted in-line in a metal frame, with the front wheel held in a rotatable fork. The rider sits in a saddle and steers by leaning and turnin
Major industrial polymers, chemical compounds used in the manufacture of synthetic industrial materials. In the commercial production of plastics, elastomers, man-made fibres, adhesives, and surface coatings, a tremendous variety of polymers are used. Th
Automobile racing, professional and amateur automobile sport practiced throughout the world in a variety of forms on roads, tracks, or closed circuits. It includes Grand Prix racing, speedway racing, stock-car racing, sports-car racing, drag racing, midg
of Adler automobiles (1930–33). The furnishings designed at the Bauhaus werecharacterizedby the extensive use of bent metal, something that was developed with the assistance of the Junkers Aircraft Company in Dessau, a firm known for its early development of the all-metal airplane in 1918, at...