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Old Feather Store

Old Feather Store is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Old Feather Store rather than just read about it. In short: The Old Feather Store was a shop located at Dock Square and Ann Street in Boston, Massachusetts. It was also called the Old Cocked Hat.

Key takeaways

Old Feather Store belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Old Feather Store to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Old Feather Store from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Old Feather Store was a shop located at Dock Square and Ann Street in Boston, Massachusetts. It was also called the Old Cocked Hat. Built in 1680 by Thomas Stanbury, it was demolished in 1860.

Brief history Through the years, the building had several owners and was used for varying commercial purposes. William Antram made hats, c. 1708; John Greenleaf ran an apothecary, 1766–1778; Samuel Wallis sold goods from West India, c. 1789; Samuel Richards sold hardware, c. 1789, as did Jonathan Phillips, c. 1803. Beginning in 1806, Daniel Pomeroy, John K. Simpson, Daniel P. Simpson, and William B. Simpson sold feathers. Charles Lovejoy sold clothes, c. 1806. William Tileston conducted business in the indigo trade, c. 1809. Its timber-frame architecture featured multi-level gables, and facades embedded with glass. A contemporary observer described its appearance in the mid-19th century, prior to its demolition:

The outside of the building was covered with a strong, and, as time has proved, durable cement, in which was observable coarse gravel and broken glass, the latter consisting of fragments of dark-colored junk bottles. At the upper part of the principle gable on the Dock square front the date of the time of erecting the building, 1680, was distinctly impressed into the rough-cast cement in Arabic figures, together with various ornamental devices.

The "cement" material was called "roughcast" and was a material popular in England, used to cover the exterior of buildings. Roughcast was a suggested building covering after the great Boston fire of 1679, as it was less likely to catch fire than clapboards, which were used on many buildings due to their lower cost and the lack of a lime source in New England.

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References

Further reading Edward Griffin Porter. Rambles in Old Boston, New England. Cupples, Upham and Company, 1887. Abbott Lowell Cummings. The Old Feather Store in Boston. Old-time New England v.48, 1958. Old Boston in early photographs, 1850–1918: 174 prints from the collection of the Bostonian Society. Courier Dover Publications, 1990. D. Brenton Simons. Boston Beheld: Antique Town and Country Views. UPNE, 2008.

External links

Bostonian Society. "Old Feather Store, Dock Square by Taylor Buzzell". Conservation. Archived from the original on October 10, 2009. Retrieved July 3, 2009. New York Public Library. Items related to Old Feather Store. Prang (1861). "Old warehouse, Dock Square". Boston Athenaeum catalog.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Old Feather Store

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Old Feather Store claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Old Feather Store before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Old Feather Store ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Old Feather Store

In research: Old Feather Store appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Old Feather Store in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Old Feather Store is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1680 establishments in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Buildings and structures completed in 1680, Buildings and structures demolished in 1860, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Old Feather Store outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Old Feather Store in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Old Feather Store means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Old Feather Store out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Old Feather Store in simple terms?

The Old Feather Store was a shop located at Dock Square and Ann Street in Boston, Massachusetts. It was also called the Old Cocked Hat.

Why does Old Feather Store matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Old Feather Store?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Old Feather Store.