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Flatiron
Flatiron or flat iron may refer to various things, often in the shape of a wedge: Objects *Clothes iron *Hair iron Places *Flatiron Building, New York City, at the intersection of 5th & Broadway **Flatiron District, New York City, named after the Flatiron Building *List of buildings named Flatiron Building, including many other buildings * Flat Iron, Indiana, a small community in Vermillion County * Flat Iron, Virginia *Flatirons Community Church, a large non-denominational church in Lafayette, Colorado Geology *Flatiron (geomorphology), a steeply sloping wedge shaped landscape feature **Flatirons, rock formations near Boulder, Colorado **Flatiron (volcano), a volcano in Wells Gray Park, British Columbia, Canada **The Flatiron, a headland overlooking Granite Harbour, Victoria Land, Antarctica Other * ''The Flatiron'', a 1904 photograph by Edward Steichen *Flatiron Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers *A Flat Iron for a Farthing, an 1872 book by Juliana Horatia Ewing *Fla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flatiron Building
The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, is a triangular 22-story, steel-framed landmarked building at 175 Fifth Avenue in the eponymous Flatiron District neighborhood of the Boroughs of New York City, borough of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick P. Dinkelberg, it was completed in 1902 and originally contained 20 floors. The building sits on a triangular block formed by Fifth Avenue, Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, and 22nd Street (Manhattan), East 22nd Street—where the building's back end is located—with 23rd Street (Manhattan), East 23rd Street grazing the triangle's northern (uptown) peak. The name "Flatiron" derives from its triangular shape, which recalls that of a cast-iron clothes iron. The Flatiron Building was developed as the headquarters of construction firm Fuller Company, which acquired the site from the Newhouse family in May 1901. Construction proceeded at a very rapid pace, and the building opened on October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Buildings Named Flatiron Building
This is a list of flatiron buildings. "Flatiron Building" is \ a name applied to a number of buildings shaped like a flatiron. One of the most famous is the Flatiron Building in New York City, which was finished in 1902. The name "Flatiron Building" may refer to any of the buildings listed below. Locations of all having coordinates below may be seen on a map by clicking "Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap" at the right side of this page. Australia * Sydney Dental Hospital, Sydney, 1940 China *Wukang Mansion, Shanghai, China, 1924 United States KEY } , - , 7 , Flatiron Building (Auburndale, Florida), aka Triangle Building , , 1912 built(also known as the Triangle Building) , , Auburndale, Florida , , - , 8 , Flatiron Building (Atlanta, Georgia) , , 1897 built , , Atlanta, Georgia , , - , 9 , Flatiron Building (Wicker Park, Chicago, Illinois) , , 1925 built , Milwaukee Avenue, North Avenue, and Damen Avenue, Wicker Park district of West Town , C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flatiron District
The Flatiron District is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, named after the Flatiron Building at 23rd Street, Broadway and Fifth Avenue. Generally, the Flatiron District is bounded by 14th Street, Union Square and Greenwich Village to the south; the Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) and Chelsea to the west; 23rd Street and Madison Square (or NoMad) to the north; and Park Avenue South and Gramercy Park to the east. Broadway cuts through the middle of the district, and Madison Avenue begins at 23rd Street and runs north. At the north (uptown) end of the district is Madison Square Park, which was completely renovated in 2001. The Flatiron District encompasses within its boundaries the Ladies' Mile Historic District and the birthplace of Theodore Roosevelt, a National Historic Site. The Flatiron District was also the birthplace of Silicon Alley, a metonym for New York's high technology sector, which has since spread beyond the area. The Flatiron Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flatirons
The Flatirons are rock formations in the western United States, near Boulder, Colorado, consisting of flatirons. There are five large, numbered Flatirons ranging from north to south (First through Fifth, respectively) along the east slope of Green Mountain (elev. ), and the term "The Flatirons" sometimes refers to these five alone. Numerous additional named Flatirons are on the southern part of Green Mountain, Bear Peak, and among the surrounding foothills. Etymology The Flatirons were known as the "Chautauqua Slabs" c. 1900 and "The Crags" c. 1906. There are two hypotheses regarding the origin of the current name, one based on resemblance to old-fashioned clothes irons, the other based on resemblance to the Flatiron Building completed in 1902. Geology The Flatirons consist of conglomeratic sandstone of the Fountain Formation. Geologists estimate the age of these rocks as 290 to 296 million years; they were lifted and tilted into their present orientation between 35 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flatiron (volcano)
The Flatiron is the name for an eroded volcanic outcrop in east-central British Columbia, Canada, located in Wells Gray Provincial Park. The Flatiron is high, long and generally about wide. It is flanked by Hemp Creek to the west and Trout Creek to the east.Neave, Roland (2015). ''Exploring Wells Gray Park'', 6th edition. Wells Gray Tours, Kamloops, BC. . Geology About 200,000 years ago, a lake formed in the Hemp Canyonlands with its upper end near the meeting of Trout and Hemp creeks. The lake bottom was about above the present bottom of the Hemp Creek Valley. The surface of the lake was the rim of the Hemp cliffs a few kilometres south of The Flatiron. The lake was created by a blockage downstream on the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flatiron (photograph)
''The Flatiron'' is a coloured photograph made by American photographer Edward Steichen in 1904. Its one of the best known photographs of his pictorialist phase. The photograph was part of the "International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography", held in the Albright Art Gallery, in Buffalo, in 1910. History and description The Flatiron building had been inaugurated in 1902 and it would become one of the most iconic buildings of New York. It soon attracted the attention of photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, who were trying to create photographs in the pictorialist style, in a similar way to painting. Steichen himself had training as a painter and with his technique of using gum bichromate over platinum print was able to add colour to this photograph of the Flatiron, taken at twilight, in Winter. He took the picture from the west side of Madison Square Park. He made three prints, respectively in blue, tan and orange-like colors. The final result seems inspired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flatiron (geomorphology)
Traditionally in geomorphology, a flatiron is a steeply sloping triangular landform created by the differential erosion of a steeply dipping, erosion-resistant layer of rock overlying softer strata. Flatirons have wide bases that form the base of a steep, triangular facet that narrows upward into a point at its summit. The dissection of a hogback by regularly spaced streams often results in the formation of a series of flatirons along the strike of the rock layer that formed the hogback.Ollier, C. D. (1985) ''Glossary of Morphotectonics,'' 2nd ed. Bureau of Mineral Resources. Geology and Geophysics Record no. 1985/30. Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Canberra, Australia. 55 pp. Fairbridge, RW (1968) ''Hogback and Flatiron.'' In RW Fairbridge, ed., pp. 524-525, ''The Encyclopedia of Geomorphology'' (Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences, Volume III), Reinhold, New York, 1296 pp. Huggett, JL (2011) ''Fundamentals of Geomorphology.'' Routledge. New York, New York. 516 pp. As noted in s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flatirons Community Church
Flatirons Community Church is a large non-denominational church in Lafayette, Colorado, approximately 10 miles east of Boulder, Colorado, United States. History Flatirons Community Church was launched in July 1994 as Boulder Creek Community Church, with a name change to Coal Creek Community Church in December 1994, and another name change to Flatirons Community Church in 1997. The church had about 200 in attendance by 1999, 1,700 in attendance in 2002, 7,200 in attendance in 2008, and in 2013 had an average weekly attendance of 13,000. The church now has an average weekly attendance of close to 19,000. The church did not immediately start construction on the land it had purchased. The Lafayette City Council approved a site plan for the new church building in November 2008, but in November 2009 the church again ran decided to change some of the plans. At that time, at a town meeting to rubberstamp the building plan changes, some local residents of nearby communities objected to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flatiron
The Flatiron is a rocky, triangular-shaped headland which overlooks the southwest part of Granite Harbour, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was charted by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, under Robert Falcon Scott Captain Robert Falcon Scott, , (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the ''Discovery'' expedition of 1901–1904 and the ill-fated ''Terra Nov ..., who so named it because of its distinctive shape. References Headlands of Victoria Land Scott Coast {{ScottCoast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Steichen
Edward Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973) was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator, renowned as one of the most prolific and influential figures in the history of photography. Steichen was credited with transforming photography into an art form. His photographs appeared in Alfred Stieglitz's groundbreaking magazine ''Camera Work'' more often than anyone else during its publication run from 1903 to 1917. Stieglitz hailed him as "the greatest photographer that ever lived". As a pioneer of fashion photography, Steichen's gown images for the magazine ''Art et Décoration'' in 1911 were the first modern fashion photographs to be published. From 1923 to 1938, Steichen served as chief photographer for the Condé Nast magazines ''Vogue'' and '' Vanity Fair'', while also working for many advertising agencies, including J. Walter Thompson. During these years, Steichen was regarded as the most popular and highest-paid photographer in the world. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers. Founded in London in 1843 by Scottish brothers Daniel and Alexander MacMillan, the firm would soon establish itself as a leading publisher in Britain. It published two of the best-known works of Victorian era children’s literature, Lewis Carroll's ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and Rudyard Kipling's ''The Jungle Book'' (1894). Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Harold Macmillan, grandson of co-founder Daniel, was chairman of the company from 1964 until his death in December 1986. Since 1999, Macmillan has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group with offices in 41 countries worldwide and operations in more than thirty others. History Macmillan was founded in London in 1843 by Daniel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clothes Iron
A clothes iron (also flatiron, smoothing iron, or simply iron) is a small appliance that, when heated, is used to press clothes to remove wrinkles and unwanted creases. Domestic irons generally range in operating temperature from between to . It is named for the metal (iron) of which the device was historically made, and the use of it is generally called ironing, the final step in the process of laundering clothes. Ironing works by loosening the ties between the long chains of molecules that exist in polymer fiber materials. With the heat and the weight of the ironing plate, the fibers are stretched and the fabric maintains its new shape when cool. Some materials, such as cotton, require the use of water to loosen the intermolecular bonds. History and development Before the introduction of electricity, irons were heated by combustion, either in a fire or with some internal arrangement. An "electric flatiron" was invented by American Henry W. Seeley and patented on June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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