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German brass making crucibles are known from Dortmund dating to the 10th century AD and from Soest and Schwerte in Westphalia dating to around the 13th century confirm Theophilus ' account, as they are open-topped, although ceramic discs from Soest may have served as loose lids which may have been used to reduce zinc evaporation, and have slag on the interior resulting from a liquid process.
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Eventually it was discovered that metallic zinc could be alloyed with copper to make brass ; a process known as speltering and by 1657 the German chemist Johann Glauber had recognised that calamine was " nothing else but unmeltable zinc " and that zinc was a " half ripe metal.
The flugelhorn (— also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn — from German, wing horn, ) is a brass instrument that resembles a trumpet but has a wider, conical bore.
Historically this has led to its use for plating metals such as iron and brass, to its use for chemical apparatus, and its use in certain alloys that will retain a high silvery polish, such as German silver.
Early bait casting reels were often constructed with brass or iron gears, with casings and spools made of brass, German silver, or hard rubber, and operated by inverting the reel and using back winding to retrieve line.
Trips by large groups typically occur every two years, including visits by the Waterloo German Band and the Blaserkreis, Porta's 70-member youth brass band.
Norteño / Conjunto accordion pioneer Narciso Martínez learned many tunes from German and Czech brass bands and transpose them to his accordion.
German folk-rock has nothing to do with Schlagers music or traditional brass band music.
Until the 1990s, the entire school of over 700 pupils dined there at a single sitting, all brought to silence for grace by the beating of a massive brass howitzer shell, captured from a German gun emplacement during World War I and then converted into a gong.
Mergenthaler reportedly got the idea for the brass matrices that would serve as molds for the letters from wooden molds used to make " Springerle ," which are German Christmas cookies.
Nickel silver, also known as German silver, Argentan, new silver, nickel brass, albata ,, or alpacca, is a copper alloy with nickel and often zinc.
The name " German silver " refers to its development by 19th-century German metalworkers in imitation of the Chinese alloy known as paktong ( Cupronickel ) All modern, commercially important nickel silvers ( such as those standardized under ASTM B122 ) contain significant amounts of zinc, and are sometimes considered a subset of brass.
A brass orchestra was founded right after the end of the German occupation.
Tuned cowbells or Almglocken, sometimes known as Alpine Bells ( Alpenglocken: de: Alpenglocken in German ), typically refer to bulbous brass bells that are used to play music, sometimes as a novelty act or tourist attraction in the northern Alps, and sometimes in classical music, as in Richard Strauss's Alpine Symphony.
A German musical society of the mid-19th century formed the Seventh Regiment Band, the only exclusively regimental band of the Civil War-era and one of the most popular brass bands of the time.
The " German " style being a cone shaped structure completely embroidered with cloth ; the " Russian " style consisting of a tall brass plate atop of a leather cap with a peak at the rear and the " British " style ( usually simply called a " grenadier cap " instead of a mitre ) being a tall cloth front-plate forward of a smaller red cap, lined in white.
The Navy brass was concerned that giving the Norden to the RAF would increase its chances of falling into German hands, which could put the US's own fleet at risk.
Aurea radiators are German Silver construction and contain a rare French " Gallay " core identical to that of the Silver Ghost Rolls Royce ; The radiator cap is bakelite and brass and identical to that of early 20's vintage FIAT cars ( 501, 503, 505, 509 & 510 models ).
' Like the German Jager rifles, it had a scrolled brass trigger guard to help ensure a firm grip and a raised cheek piece on the left-hand side of the butt.
His conducting experience includes various orchestras and chamber groups, choirs, ensembles for new music, Posaunenchöre ( German brass band ; literally " trombone choir "), operas and singing concerts, etc.
Later models introduced a German Carve body and aluminum instead of brass plates.
Lange movements are made from a metal known as " German silver ", an alloy of copper and nickel, as opposed to the plated brass typically used for Swiss movements, giving Lange movements an unusual color and sheen.
To complicate identification, samples made with German army markings ( brass handles with text in English language ) seem to be post war ( 1948 ) marketing attempts capitalizing on the term Paratrooper.
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Last week, in the German city of Dusseldorf, G. David Thompson was making headlines that could well give Pittsburgh pause.
The projected union initially aroused great opposition: he did not consult with his father, who had been on vacation in Karlovy Vary and making arrangements to secure the hand of a German princess for his son, or his Prime Minister Dr. Vladan Đorđević, who was visiting the Paris Universal Exhibition at the time of the announcement.
In March 1916, the Bureau of Investigation suspected German terrorists were making bombs in the tunnel, and broke through the roof of the tunnel with jackhammers.
The English and German troops who had held Schwenningen through the night joined the march, making a ninth column on the left of the army.
For example, Baldrick is reduced to making coffee from mud and cooking rats, while General Melchett hatches a plan for the troops to walk very slowly toward the German lines, because " it'll be the last thing Fritz will expect.
The Treaty of Versailles limited any German Army to a maximum of 100, 000 men, making impossible the deployment of massed troops which had characterized German strategy before the War.
Ibánez was a German national who pledged allegiance to his mother country of Germany, effectively making Chile a German possession.
This edition was used by Martin Luther in making his German translation of the Bible for his own religious movement.
The percentage of Low Saxon and High German loanwords can be estimated at 22 – 25 percent, with Low Saxon making up about 15 percent.
Their attack was halted when German citizens who were loyal to the state went on strike, cutting off many services and making daily life so problematic that the coup was called off.
The trading policies of the Third Reich aimed at discouraging trade with countries outside the German sphere of influence, while making southern Europe largely dependent on Germany.
In his Addresses to the German Nation ( 1808 ), a series of speeches delivered in Berlin under French occupation, he urged the German peoples to " have character and be German "-- entailed in his idea of Germanness was antisemitism, since he argued that " making Jews free German citizens would hurt the German nation.
Guilds, Innovation, and the European Economy, 1400 – 1800 ( 2008 ) 360pp essays by scholars covering German and Italian territories, the Netherlands, France, and England ; plus guilds in cloth spinning, painting, glass blowing, goldsmithing, pewterware, book-selling, and clock making.
He was subsequently employed on various papal missions, especially to Germany, but was unsuccessful in preventing the German princes from making a truce with the reformers, or in checking to any extent the progress of the reformers ' doctrines.
These groups — the Nazi party and government leadership, the German General Staff and High Command ( OKW ); the Sturmabteilung ( SA ); the Schutzstaffel ( SS ), including the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ); and the Gestapo — had an aggregate membership exceeding two million, making a large number of their members liable to trial if the organisations were convicted.
Because the Allies had indicated that they were going to pursue criminal charges for German war crimes, Hitler tried to gain the loyalty and silence of his subordinates by making them all parties to the planned genocide.
Often this means making the central bank very aggressive about maintaining price stability, as was the case with the German Bundesbank or moving to some hard basis of currency such as a currency board.
Irish Americans number over 45 million, making them the second largest reported ethnic group in the country, after German Americans.
German and crucibles
The 12th century German monk Theophilus described how preheated crucibles were one sixth filled with powdered calamine and charcoal then topped up with copper and charcoal before being melted, stirred then filled again.
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