According to dictionary.com‚ a steel pan is a percussion instrument originating in Trinidad‚ made out of an oil drum with one end beaten down and divided by grooves into sections to give different notes. Though steel pans (steel drums) were created on the Caribbean island of Trinidad in the 1930s‚ the steel pan history can be traced back to the enslaved Africans who were brought to the island during the 1700s. They carried with them elements of their African culture including the playing of hand
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------------------------------------------------- Alloy Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron‚ with carbon content between 0.02% and 2.14% by mass. An alloy is a metallic solid solution composed of two or more elements. Complete solid solution alloys give single solid phase microstructure‚ while partial solutions give two or more phases that may or may not be homogeneous in distribution‚ depending on thermal (heat treatment) history. Alloys usually have different properties from those
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the rejection of ornamentation. The Inland Steel Building clearly demonstrated how American architecture had changed during those decades and attested to the influence of both the international style and the work of Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe and their basic principals of design. The Inland Steel Building was the first high-rise in the Chicago Loop after the construction hiatus created by The Great Depression and World War II. The elegant combination of steel and glass were innovative due to the mass
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Introduction The materials that usually used for construction such as reinforced concrete‚ timber‚ brick‚ and also steel. In Malaysia‚ the steel has been used especially for the construction of electric tower‚ industrial building (factory)‚ roof truss‚ bridge and more. However‚ the usage of steel for residential is limited because their usage depends on the accompany with the other material. Steel framed structures are designed with the connections between the separate members treated as either non-rigid
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What is Market Structure Analysis? ...........................................1 1.2 What is Steel? .............................................................................1 1.3 History of Steel ...........................................................................2 1.4 Early Market Structure of the Steel Industry ..............................2 1.5 Current Market Structure of the Steel Industry ...........................4 II. What caused the change? .........................
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Guns‚ Germs and Steel Jared Diamond‚ author of the Pulitzer Prize Winning‚ National Best Selling book Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚ summarizes his book by saying the following: "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples ’ environments‚ not because of biological differences among peoples themselves." Guns‚ Germs and Steel is historical literature that documents Jared Diamond ’s views on how the world as we know it developed. However‚ is his thesis that
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Steel Industry Analysis: POSCO vs. U.S. Steel GMB504 Team: Sanghoon Lee‚ Minhyong Lee‚ Jaekook Han Youngjae Chae‚ Alexey Morozov‚ Vincent Lee Industry Rationale: While the field of material science has progressed dramatically over the past few decades with the advent of cutting edge materials (such as carbon fiber‚ carbon fiber nano‐tubes‚ 3D printing‚ eco‐ friendly materials‚ etc.) the world economy is still heavily reliant upon steel. Steel is the
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AP World History Summer Reading “Guns‚ Germs and Steel” A.) In the Prologue of Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel by Jared Diamond‚ a local politician name Yali asks Jared Diamond a question‚ the answer to it is explain throughout the rest of the book. His question‚ “‘Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had little cargo of our own?’” By this‚ Yali wants to know why the advancements in some areas are greater than in others‚ why there are
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Does the Man of Steel parallel Christ‚ the Man of Sorrows? Superman is possibly one of the most known superheroes in the world. But in the past six years the superhero movie industry has exploded. At least one major blockbuster superhero movie is now released about every six months and countless people flood into the movie theater to see each and every one. Prior to the explosion of popularity I would dare say Superman was the single most known superhero in the world‚ but now he has to compete with
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especially for welding of stainless steels‚ aluminum and magnesium. In stainless steel industry‚ TIG welding has an important role on joining thin sheets‚ tubes and pipes. Depending on this important role‚ the mechanical behaviours of TIG welded joints and criteria affecting these behaviours are the main cared subjects in industry to obtain products with less failure and use them for longer service times. Mechanical behaviours of TIG welded joints in stainless steels are also the main subject of the
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