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The Nissen hut is a prefabricated shelter that consists of a sheet of corrugated steel bent into half a cylinder and planted in the ground with its axis horizontal. The semicircular ends are closed with masonry walls. It was developed for the British military by Peter Norman Nissen, a Canadian mining engineer, in 1916.
The Quonset hut, based on the Nissen hut, was developed by the US Navy in World War 2.
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