It was state intervention, not the private market, that made metal specie work as money.
"Home economics, woodwork and metal work was commonplace in schools two decades ago, " Mr Davies said.
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From the Bronze Age, finds included a skeleton and from the Iron Age evidence of metal work.
It does make sense, after all, since metal work involves bending, shaping, forming.
They poured concrete, lugged bricks and cement and did metal work, with some clad in gloves and construction helmets.
Grow Heathrow also claims to share practical skills such as permaculture design, bicycle maintenance and wood and metal work with the community.
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Outside, Ms. Reid designed a galvanized steel-and-mahogany arbor covered with wisteria over a large outdoor dining table next to the studio, to give domesticity to the metal work space and connect it to the house.
Mixes the mercury and rare earths that make metal halide and CFL lamps work.
The headphones include premium 9mm drivers optimized to work with the metal housing to deliver extended bass response.
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This weekend the metal detectorists will be continuing their work, whatever the weather.
In the nineties, a range of American acts began drawing from the work of Norwegian metal bands that were famous mostly for a look and for several unpleasant events.
At first, I opened my house, garage and back yard to friends so they could come over during their medical rehabilitations and work with my metal fabrication and woodworking tools.
Last December's Christie's auction in Los Angeles featured one lot that seemed irresistible: a poster for a film of a concert by Blue Oyster Cult and Black Sabbath, two out-of-work heavy-metal rock bands that still stubbornly sell old records to adoring fans.
As October ended, 19% of metal-workers were officially out of work, and half of those left were on short time.
Lately, he has been working with palladium and his winning design is an example of his work with this precious metal.
Dow's engineers came up with a design calling for three plastic parts to do the same work as the 153 metal parts in the traditional mower.
Induction heating, by applying an electrical charge directly to the recovery hose, might work assuming the hose is metal.
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Or were they just not familiar with or simply ignored the concepts of magnets-metal-and-locks as they all work together to cause them to open?
Like many makers, Ms. Bellesen creates something out of her passion and emotional connection to the work, in this case, metal.
Tensegrity refers to the balance of pushing and pulling forces--the metal pushes, the wire pulls--that work to maintain a flexible, elastic shape.
Nerve cells transmit their signals using electrically charged atoms (called ions) of sodium and potassium, which work rather like electrons in a metal wire.
"Over the past six to eight months, we've been doing some work with local communities and scrap metal dealers which has enabled us to see a substantial decrease in the number of offences, " he said.
Magna unit Cosma International will manufacture Skyline's systems at a metal stamping plant that is still in use for auto parts work.
Bigelow says that in the three most important measures of a space station's viability--volume, ability to take impact and radiation protection--his expandable systems work much better than traditional hard-sided metal habitats.
When he first began to work on the railway, Fyodorov had treated metal and machines as he treated animals and plants with caution and foresight, trying not only to get to know them but also to outwit them.
Like the powerful nickel-metal-hydride battery in the Toyota Prius that he drives to work every day, the one with the license plate OVONIC.
Ott immediately thought of an additive manufacturing process called direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) that she had encountered in her work at a major aerospace company.
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In addition, the Best Buy spot with Grammy-nominated pop superstar, Justin Bieber, and papa metal superstar, Ozzy Osbourne, is another example of smart branding at work.
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