Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fortnight the prophecy of this blessing to mankind had its first fulfillment. The Morgan Engineering Co., of Alliance, Ohio, announced the completion of a two-story automobile sales and storage plant, built throughout with metal lumber, welded throughout electrically. Not a single rivet was used...
...tinsmith's solder, which is pressed along the crevice between two surfaces that are to be joined. The bar is melted, as are both the girder surfaces along the line of the joint, and the molten strip thus formed fuses instantly to a connection of solid metal...
Egyptologists have never before found a single piece of furniture from so remote an age as that of Sneferu. Experts believe that most of the collapsed wood can be successfully reconstructed by means of the inlay and metal ornamentation. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts now has on exhibition a jewel casket and toilet box of a somewhat later Egyptian princess which was built entirely from the ivory inlay and gold frames...
...better than steel." He declared: "If Germany beats America to the production of such a metal, the world will pay the German war debt one hundred times over...
Aluminum. The story of the political fight which opened last week really begins in the history of the metal. Aluminum, or aluminium as it is scientifically known, is a comparatively common element. It makes up about 7.28% of the earth (exclusive of the unknown interior).* It is exceedingly useful because it is malleable (not brittle), does not rust and only slightly tarnishes, and is very light, only about a third as heavy as iron. None the less it was not really isolated as a metal until 1828, the reason being that it is comparatively difficult to separate from the other...