The average washing machine contains about 40kg of steel and when a machine is scrapped, a proportion of the steel is lost to landfill.

BBC: Should we be owning our washing machines?

It functions as a wonderful mix of the mechanical and the organic, as a steady drum machine and languid pedal steel ring out side by side.

NPR: Heartfelt Emotion in an Orchestral Arrangement

Bill Bonner, founder of Agora and a book-writing machine, has a steel-trap mind with an ability to turn a phrase that is way beyond that of your humble analyst.

FORBES: The End Game Of The Debt Supercycle

You went to the table for your election district, signed in, went to a big old steel mechanical voting machine made in Jamestown, New York, pulled a big lever, set small levers for all the candidates you wanted, pulled the big lever back, and were done.

FORBES: New York's New Voting System Is a Disaster

An investment boom from 2001-04, for example, paved the way for the ballooning surplus of 2004-07, according to Jonathan Anderson, formerly of UBS. That investment poured into heavy industries, such as aluminium, machine tools, cement, chemicals and steel.

ECONOMIST: China��s economy

He's a lifelong commercial fisherman ... a production operator in the oil fields of Alaska's North Slope ... a proud member of the United Steel Workers Union ... and world champion snow machine racer.

NPR: Transcript: Gov. Sarah Palin At The RNC