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Office Furnishing Interest: Among other pieces of furnishing might be ntioned partitions, counters, carpet, or lino-floor covering, shades, pictures, clothes ss, umbrella stands, Floor mats, pen and ink letter trays, safes and vaults, bookcases, ickroom shelving and so on. With all of these, : office furnishing interest executive must be familiar. To assist the office furnishing interest executive in identifying fld selecting pieces of equipment, the National fice Management Association has developed Business Equipment Directory, in which the Evarious pieces of machinery and furniture, with [brief outlines of their characteristics, are listed. Materials and Supplies.
Because of her interest in teapots and Chinese porcelains, Queen Mary, the consort of William III, has been credited with introducing the fad in England. While she may have made the style fashionable, it seems rather unlikely that she introduced it in England. Mary was not crowned until February of 1689, and the furnishing of Hampton Court was still in progress in 1695 when Celia Fienes made her tour throug_h it. On the other hand, J. Stalker had published his Treatise of Japaning at Oxford in 1688. It seems hardly possible that Stalker would have felt justified in bringing out so imposing a treatise, the first in English, if there had not been an active interest in the subject.See Also Office Furnishing Odel:During World War II, in occupied France, the odel free diving apparatus came from Jacques ves Cousteau and fimile Gagnan. In 1943 they •oduced the first aqualung, which used com-'essed air, as the helmet diver does. The new iparatus, however, was self-contained and inde-ndent, furnishing compressed air automatically "space men" prowling in seven times the depth oxygen-breathing apparatus. The aqualung cul-inated a long French effort in independent com-essed air devices, dating at least to Freminet's ig in 1784; it brought to completion the ideas Rouquayrol and Denayrouze with their aero-one (1862) and Le Prieur's manually-valved paratus of 1933. Compressed air physiology is already understood from the research of sev-il men.
A drastically different type of girl is "Holland Hostess," whose bureau is ated in the central bus station and ticket office furnishing odel of KLM on the Museumplein Amsterdam. This recently organized non-commercial bureau performs in-uable service in furnishing information, practical aids and needed contacts to • foreign visitors, whether coming to Holland for pleasure or bent on business.
On The Other Hand See Office Furnishing Lestine:An age where religion was the main-ring of daily life, the occupation of .lestine, scene of Jesus's life, by the ifidel' Muslims filled many Christians th horror. Interference by the Seljuk nrks with the bands of Christian pilgrims 'ing to Jerusalem inspired Pope Urban II call for a Crusade to free the Holy Land am the Saracens, as the Muslims were iown.
Perhaps the greatest achievement of all ages was that of writing. No other single factor has made such a lasting or far-reaching contribu¬tion to our civilization. Without it, there could have been no office furnishing lestine function at all. With it, the office furnishing lestine function began. Yet clerical workers are apt to consider the office furnishing lestine as a mechanism peculiar to this day and age. They are not aware of the fact that the office furnishing lestine is really an ancient institu¬tion, and that there are records of office furnishing lestine activities dating back three and four thousand years. The civilizations of Assyria, Babylonia, and Egypt made use of office furnishing lestine facilities for recording the transactions of individuals, and of governmental agencies, for centuries.
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