Most quail cages are built of open mesh wire, since the birds need shelter, but plenty of air.
At the Paris Exposition of 1867, Hennebique saw Joseph Monier's tubs and tanks built of concrete reinforced with wire mesh and was stimulated to seek a way to apply this new material to building construction.
"Modelroom" is a walk-in enclosure of obliquely angled chipboard shelves stocked with scores of small, geometric constructions: domes, globes, toruses, polyhedrons and other elemental structures are built of copper bands or wire, wood, cardboard, clay, mirrors and neon.
What captivated me, however, were Mr. Toan's explorations of how to make a space station habitable, as well as the simple tools he brought to his task: sketchpads, color slides, videotape and scale models that were almost literally built of bubble gum and baling wire.
The judicial system, as Von Drehle wrote, was "a slapdash machine designed in confusion, built of spare parts and baling wire".
His creations include lights made from metal bottling parts, a lounge chair made from conveyor belts, locker doors pasted with calendar girls, and a scale model of the brewery built from electrical wire and circuit boards.
Railroads were built; alfalfa, barbed wire, new breeds of cattle and sheep, and finally the refrigeration of meat were introduced.
As a group, they are forced to feed a perpetual-motion machine with all sorts of rants, non-sequitur links, and theories built out of chicken wire, gum, and duct tape.
For this purpose, a metallic structured substrate was designed and built using wire-mesh discs of AISI 304.
Perhaps everything has an armature, thought being built around a kind of wire in the mind.
