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steel and frame
He had strength in his six-foot frame, but it was like the tensile steel in a rapier.
Now reassemble the frame, using Af roundhead steel screws and nuts.
It featured a tubular steel frame on which were mounted wire-spoked wheels with solid rubber tires.
Other exotic frame materials, such as titanium, are now also available, as well as advanced steel alloys and even bamboo.
The bar had two steel coil springs placed on it and the bogie frame rested on the springs.
The forged steel globes to be used in the space frame came to the site with hairline cracks and other defects ; 12, 000 were rejected.
On ships and aircraft machine guns are usually mounted on a pintle mount – basically a steel post that is connected to the frame.
Some early skyscrapers have a steel frame that enables the construction of load-bearing walls taller than of those made of reinforced concrete.
Modern skyscrapers ' walls are not load-bearing, and most skyscrapers are characterized by large surface areas of windows made possible by the concept of steel frame and curtain walls.
The first steel frame skyscraper was the Home Insurance Building ( originally 10 storeys with a height of ) in Chicago, Illinois in 1885.
High-precision sextants have an invar ( a special low-expansion steel ) frame and arc.
The frame is almost always made of steel, but can be made ( whole or in part ) of aluminium for a lighter weight.
Under Harry S. Truman, the interior rooms were completely dismantled and a new internal load-bearing steel frame constructed inside the walls.
The work, done by the firm of Philadelphia contractor John McShain, required the complete dismantling of the interior spaces, construction of a new load-bearing internal steel frame and the reconstruction of the original rooms within the new structure.
It is often covered by insulating plastic plates which further reduce heat transference. Explanation: if you hold the frame long enough so that it heats up by 10 ° C, then the increase in length of any 10 cm linear piece of steel is of magnitude 1 / 100 mm.
Modern drafting tables typically rely on a steel frame.
The steel frame allows mechanical linkages to be installed that control both the height and angle of the drafting board surface.
In the late 1960s, Wilson produced the T2000 steel racket with wire wound around the frame to make string loops.
When a steamer is unavailable, a wok filled less than half with water is a replacement by placing a metal frame made of stainless steel in the middle of the wok.
Gilbert was a skyscraper pioneer ; when designing the Woolworth Building he moved into unproven ground — though he certainly was aware of the ground-breaking work done by Chicago architects on skyscrapers and once discussed merging firms with the legendary Daniel Burnham — and his technique of cladding a steel frame became the model for decades.
** Commissioned by F. Augustus Heinze, this eight-story low-rise building has an internal steel frame.

steel and developed
In 1858, Sir Henry Bessemer developed a process of steel making by blowing hot air through liquid pig iron to reduce the carbon content.
After World War II, Brazil developed a steel mill at Volta Redonda, in Rio de Janeiro State, and quickly became the largest steel producer in Latin America.
He designed consumer products, standardized parts, created clean-lined designs for the company's graphics, developed a consistent corporate identity, built the modernist landmark AEG Turbine Factory, and made full use of newly developed materials such as poured concrete and exposed steel.
Rickenbacker offered a cast aluminum electric steel guitar, nicknamed " The Frying Pan " or " The Pancake Guitar ", developed in 1931 with production beginning in the summer of 1932.
Alvino Rey was an artist who took this instrument to a wide audience in a large orchestral setting and later developed the pedal steel guitar for Gibson.
The use of metal aircraft structures was pioneered before World War I by Breguet but would find its biggest proponent with Anthony Fokker who used chrome-molybdenum steel tubing for the fuselage structure of all his fighter designs, while the innovative German engineer Hugo Junkers developed two all-metal, single-seat fighter monoplane designs with cantilever wings: the strictly experimental Junkers J 2 private-venture aircraft, made with steel, and some forty examples of the Junkers D. I, made with corrugated duralumin, all based on his experience in creating the pioneering Junkers J 1 all-metal airframe technology demonstration aircraft of late 1915.
The ammunition was initially a steel cylinder charged with black powder and primed with a percussion cap, because self-contained brass cartridges had not yet been fully developed and become available.
Benjamin Huntsman developed his crucible steel technique in the 1740s.
In 1890 Krupp developed nickel steel, which was hard enough to allow thin battleship armor and cannon.
Aluminum and steel were popular materials for complete rounds, and AAI successfully developed a plastic blank.
* History of the steel plough – as developed by John Deere in the US
Wootz steel which is also known as Damascus steel was a unique and highly prized steel developed on the Indian subcontinent as early as the 5th century BC.
; Cap skis: During the 1980s, Bucky Kashiwa developed a new construction technique using a rolled stainless steel sheet forming three sides of a torsion box over a wooden core, with the base of the ski forming the bottom.
Korean researchers have developed an amorphous tantalum-tungsten-copper alloy that is more flexible and two to three times stronger than commonly used steel alloys.
The Accutron, an electromechanical watch developed by Max Hetzel and manufactured by Bulova beginning in 1960, used a 360 hertz steel tuning fork powered by a battery as its timekeeping element.
War hammers were developed as a consequence of the ever more prevalent surface-hardened steel surfacing of wrought iron armours of the late medieval battlefields during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
* c. 1740: Modern steel was developed by Benjamin Huntsman
In 1965 a Russian scientist proposed that a shaped charge originally developed for piercing thick steel armor be adapted to the task of accelerating shock waves.

steel and stages
The new helmet was pressed from sheets of molybdenum steel in several stages.
The final stages of the rebuilding stretched into the 1970s, with track amplification carried out to Footscray, and Box Hill, and the first deliveries of the stainless steel Hitachi trains.
The conversion of iron or steel into sheet, wire or rods requires hot and cold mechanical transformation stages frequently employing water as a lubricant and coolant.
Some of the notable differences are a steel case instead of the regular plastic case and an extra disc which contains artworks of environments and stages including Locust that never made it to the game.
Lunar plaques are rectangular stainless steel plaques ( 9 " x 7 5 / 8 ") attached to the ladders on the descent stages of the American lunar modules used from Apollo 11 through Apollo 17.
* In addition CONNDOT has been reconstructing the median of the Turnpike in stages, replacing the pre-existing steel guiderail and grass divider with a wide, 48-inch tall Jersey barrier along the highway's length from the Baldwin Bridge to the New York State line.
Japanese sword polishing, particularly in the finishing stages, is still most commonly performed with extremely costly and rare natural polishing stones, as the inconsistent grit sizes of the abrasive particles in natural stones will often produce visual results of polishing that reveal characteristics of the steel that the uniform grain particles in artificial stone will not.

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