Replacing a thatch roof on a home in the Netherlands.

Joseph Siry, 1989

Built of naturally derived materials, field stalks of hay, thatch is used in rural Europe to insulate the roof of a home through which most of strucrure's warmth escapes.

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Tulips as tools?
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Tools of Toil: what to read.
Tools are historical building blocks of technology.
Technology can be understood if tools have three facets.
Tools used in both Music and Architecture led to mechanization and automation.
Tools and the study of technology require us to reflect on the power of instruments,

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