To overcome all this, LeRoy Olson, an engineer at the University of Washington, devised a barrel-shaped structure of metal rings.
Manipulating the shape of the threads using this method, called thread-rolling, was thought to be impossible because it would be too hard to control the structure of the screw if metal oozed into odd shapes.
Yet for all their seeming impenetrability they were flexible, thanks to an ingenious lamellar structure essentially, strips made of lacquered metal bound together with colored or gold laces.
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Thin branches, long vines and thicker branches comprised 100 thorns built around an initial metal structure, said Colin McKenzie of WCMG, an event marketing agency that started developing the piece five weeks ago.
To experience dawn on the summit of Mount Amaro, you can spend the night in the Mario Pelino bivouac hut, a circular red metal structure easily found at the top of the mountain.
It involves creating a lattice made out of tiny polystyrene spheres and then filling the space in and around the structure with metal.
The stylish design of the ZT60 Series is based on the concept of "one sheet of glass", which accentuates the superiority of the panel's picture quality and the unique pedestal structure with a thin metal plate gives the TV an elegant glass and metal aesthetics.
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The structure contained the first rolled iron beams, developed and manufactured by Peter Cooper in anticipation of the metal-framed skyscraper.
Pile: long heavy section of timber, concrete or metal, driven into the earth or seabed as support for another structure.
Once you house an antenna structure inside of an aluminum body, you also have shadowing effects to overcome, this is caused by the metal body affecting the radiated signal, as well as the inbound signals from the cell sites.
He scaled 10 ladders inside the structure to the "weather door" before climbing the final 12m with the help of two steeplejacks, ropes and metal rungs.
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