On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

A bronze plaque inscribed with Drake's claim to the new lands – Drake's Plate of Brass – fitting the description in his account, was discovered in Marin County, California but was later declared a hoax.

The plaque is made of bronze, and is a star set in a circle with a blue background, and the words " SHEFFIELD LEGEND " GORDON BANKS OBE.

The first stratigraphic boundary was defined in 1977 by identifying the Silurian-Devonian boundary with a bronze plaque at a locality called Klonk, northeast of the village of Suchomasty in the Czech Republic.

There is a stone monument with a bronze plaque at the Hürtgen military cemetery dedicated by veterans of the U. S. 4th Infantry Division to the memory of Friedrich Lengfeld ( 29 September 1921 – 12 November 1944 ), a German lieutenant.

In Dublin, Ireland there is a bronze plaque depicting this 13 August 1887 event on the statue of expedition Surgeon Major Thomas Heazle Parke who removed the arrow and sucked the poison from the wound.

Many older illustrations ( above ) show the statue with one foot on either side of the harbor mouth with ships passing under it: "... the brazen giant of Greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from land to land ..." (" The New Colossus ", a poem engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the Statue of Liberty in 1903 ).

Other artifacts include bronze reliefs depicting a sea deity, fishermen and tritons, nine stone or bronze statues of dogs, one of which has a human face, and some of which are similar to Irish Wolfhounds, a bronze plaque of a woman, a bronze arm, an oculist's stamp ( used by physicians to mark their cakes of eye ointment ), about 320 pins, nearly 300 bracelets, and over 8, 000 coins.

The name of each inductee is inscribed in bronze on the Hall of Fame plaque at the CAB offices in Ottawa.

On the parade ground a native boulder bears a bronze plaque in memory of Eagle Scout twin brothers from Troop 2, Towanda, Pennsylvania, Air Force Lieutenants John R. and William G. Winter.

A bronze plaque, dedicated to all who were affected, was later placed near the pond.

A bronze plaque reflecting Hickam's " national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America " took its place among other memorials surrounding the base flagpole.

Near the entrance to the hall is a bronze plaque commemorating the services and life of Father Thomas Connors, a bi-lingual French / English priest from the Our Lady of La Salette Order Missionaries of La Salette, who was assigned to St. Joseph's parish in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Hall is buried in the vicinity of the so-called " store well ," with a bronze plaque bolted to a ledge as commemoration.

This information comes from the bronze plaque in the town's center at Utica and Cunningham Streets.

The bronze plaque in the lobby commemorates Sir Philip's father, Captain Charles William Harris, after whom the building is named.

A couple of years later, Highland Park Elementary School was presented with a bronze plaque in honor of the students ' achievement.

Today, this event is commemorated by a historic monument with a bronze plaque bearing the names of the fifteen men who lost their lives during the massacre.

The bronze plaque, listing the names of the fallen, was optimistically dated Memorial Day, 1920.

" Despite this, there is a bronze plaque attached to the corner of the building declaring that exact spot to be the place where the phrase " Give ' em hell, Harry " was first uttered.

A bronze plaque recognizing various pioneers who have been to Wishram begins with Meriwether Lewis and ends with John C. Fremont.

Also unveiled that day was a memorial to the members of the press who died at Munich, which consisted of a bronze plaque that named the eight lost journalists.

There is a bronze wreath on the wall.

Besides flathead bronze screws, silicon bronze Stronghold nails ( made by Independent Nail & Packing Co., Bridgewater, Mass. ) are used extensively in assembly and Weldwood resorcinol glue is used in all the joints.

Ranking from the very few bronzes survived to us is the masterpiece bronze Piraeus Apollo.

The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.

The marble is a Hellenistic or Roman copy of a bronze original by the Greek sculptor Leochares, made between 350 and 325 BCE.

Eventually, humans learned to smelt metals such as copper and tin from ore, and, around 2500 BC, began alloying the two metals to form bronze, which is much harder than its ingredients.

While the use of iron started to become more widespread around 1200 BC, mainly because of interruptions in the trade routes for tin, the metal is much softer than bronze.

A large hieratic bronze of Innocent X by Algardi is now to be found in the Capitoline Museums.

By comparison, bronze is principally an alloy of copper and tin.

* Red brass is both an American term for the copper-zinc-tin alloy known as gunmetal, and an alloy which is considered both a brass and a bronze.

Many have similar tin contents to contemporary bronze artefacts and it is possible that some copper-zinc alloys were accidental and perhaps not even distinguished from copper.

However, since " bronze " is a somewhat imprecise term, and historical pieces have variable compositions, in particular with an unclear boundary with brass, modern museum and scholarly descriptions of older objects increasingly use the more cautious and inclusive term " copper alloy " instead.

The word bronze is borrowed from, itself borrowed from ( compare Medieval ), whose origin is unclear.

Though bronze is generally harder than wrought iron, with Vickers hardness of 60 – 258 vs. 30 – 80, the Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age ; this happened because iron was easier to find and easier to process.

The population migrations around 1200 – 1100 BC reduced the shipping of tin around the Mediterranean ( and from Great Britain ), limiting supplies and raising prices. Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng, Spring and Autumn Period ( 476BC-221BC ) As ironworking improved, iron became cheaper ; and as cultures advanced from wrought iron to forged iron, they learned how to make steel, which is stronger than bronze and holds a sharper edge longer.

There are many different bronze alloys but modern bronze is typically 88 % copper and 12 % tin.

Historical " bronzes " are highly variable in composition, as most metalworkers probably used whatever scrap was on hand ; the metal of the 12th century English Gloucester Candlestick is bronze containing a mixture of copper, zinc, tin, lead, nickel, iron, antimony, arsenic with an unusually large amount of silver – between 22. 5 % in the base and 5. 76 % in the pan below the candle.

The Benin Bronzes are really brass, and the Romanesque Baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège is described as both bronze and brass.

Bismuth bronze is a bronze alloy with a composition of 52 % copper, 30 % nickel, 12 % zinc, 5 % lead, 1 % bismuth.

Typically bronze only oxidizes superficially ; once a copper oxide ( eventually becoming copper carbonate ) layer is formed, the underlying metal is protected from further corrosion.