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The format is approximately 11.5 inches by 9.5 inches. 48 pages, plus covers. Illustrated front cover. Illustrations., Bibliography. Minor cover wear and soiling noted. This publication was connected with the Museum's Sheet Metal exhibition. Introductory material by Robert W. Duemling, Arthur W. Scurlock, and W. L. Fillippini. This includes information on production, hand tools and machine tools. Sheet metal craftsmanship is the precise art of shaping, cutting, bending, and joining thin metal sheets into functional or artistic structures. It blends traditional manual techniques like hammering and shearing with modern technologies such as machining, welding, and laser cutting to produce durable, high-precision components for industries and art. Sheet metal craftsmanship is essential in manufacturing, HVAC, construction, automotive, and aerospace industries for creating parts like, enclosures, brackets, panels, and custom art installations. Exhibition installation was designed by Frank Gehry. The National Building Museum is a museum of architecture, design, engineering, construction, and urban planning in Northwest Washington, D.C., U.S. It was created by an act of Congress in 1980, and is a private non-profit institution. Located at 401 F Street NW, it is adjacent to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and the Judiciary Square Metro station. The museum hosts various temporary exhibits in galleries around the spacious Great Hall. The building, completed in 1887, served as the Pension Building, housing the United States Pension Bureau, and hosted several presidential inaugural balls. It is centered around a high-columned interior central courtyard hall often used for various events. It is an important early large-scale example of Renaissance Revival architecture, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985. The National Building Museum is housed in the former Pension Bureau building, a brick structure completed in 1887 and designed by Montgomery C. Meigs, the U.S. Army quartermaster general. It is notable for several architectural features, including the spectacular interior columns and a frieze, sculpted by Caspar Buberl, stretching around the exterior of the building and depicting Civil War soldiers in scenes reminiscent of those on Trajan's Column as well as the Horsemen Frieze of the Parthenon. The vast interior, measuring 316 × 116 feet, has been used to hold inauguration balls; a Presidential Seal is set into the floor near the south entrance. After the Civil War, the United States Congress passed legislation that greatly extended the scope of pension coverage for veterans and their survivors and dependents, notably their widows and orphans. The number of staff needed to administer the new benefits system ballooned to over 1,500, and quickly required a new building from which to run it all. Meigs was chosen to design and construct the new building. Built before modern artificial ventilation, the building was designed to maximize air circulation: all offices had exterior windows, but also opened onto the court, which was designed to admit cool air at ground level and exhaust hot air at the roof.
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