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unusual facts about Stainless


Terni

The city has three important industrial hubs: the first one is the Stainless called AST (part of the group ThyssenKrupp) and is a wide area located in the east part of Terni.


Acesita

Acesita was founded in the 1940s, among the cofounders was Percival Farquhar and got into the stainless steel business in the late 1970s.

Adelaide Festival Centre

The Festival Centre Plaza also serves as host to an outdoor collection of sculpture, including the prominent stainless steel Environmental Sculpture (also known as Tetrahedra), by Bert Flugelman.

Aleš Veselý

1994 Doublebench, Faret Tachikawa, Tokyo, stainless steel, diorite, 240 x 240 x 70 cm

Alison Wilding

Her only large-scale public artwork "Ambit" was installed in the River Wear at Sunderland in 1999, taking the form of a necklace of stainless-steel tubes floting in the river, and lit up from underwater at night.

Ancon

George Clark of Sheffield was founded in 1882 and Ancon Stainless Steel Fixings was founded in 1971.

Art Kane

Art Kane is credited in the book Stainless Steel Illusion for the photograph of John DeLorean with the DeLorean DMC-12 sports car that was the basis for the only magazine advertisement ever created by DeLorean Motor Company.

Bit mouthpiece

Copper: Warms up quickly, but does not last as long as stainless steel.

Boca Raton Army Airfield

Every three days, the men vacuumed up the resulting millions of spores and packed them in one-to-two gallon stainless steel containers, which were driven to the Avon Park Air Force Range, near Sebring.

Calvert, Alabama

German technology conglomerate ThyssenKrupp broke ground on a US$4.65 billion stainless and carbon steel processing facility in Calvert in 2007, which is projected to employ 2,700.

Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis

In 1999, a 14-foot high, welded stainless steel sculpture by Wiktor Szostalo was installed on the side lawn of the church.

Colin Chapman

From 1978 until his death, Chapman was involved with the American tycoon, John DeLorean, in his development of a stainless steel sports car, to be built in a factory funded by the British government.

Daniel Bedingfield

In December 2009, he co-wrote material with Tessanne Chin as well as recorded three songs with Busy Signal at DJ Karim's Stainless Records studios in Kingston, Jamaica.

EMD E5

This equipment was used in the production of the 1992 film A League of Their Own, and for the 2006 film Flags of Our Fathers, E5 9911A Silver Pilot was used with 4 stainless steel passenger cars relettered to resemble the Zephyr trainset.

Fairbury, Nebraska

The largest among these are Endicott Clay Products, producing brick and tile in nearby Endicott, with 200 employees; Prairie View Industries, producing stainless steel and aluminum handicap ramps and food service equipment, with 80 employees; Fairbury Food Products, with 54 employees; and Tetra Micronutrients, manufacturing micronutrients for use in fertilizer and animal feed, with 47 employees.

Forever Marilyn

The 26-foot-tall (7.9 m) 34,000 pound (15.42 t) sculpture, manufactured of painted stainless steel and aluminum, is a super-sized sculptural tribute to Marilyn Monroe's iconic scene from Billy Wilder's 1955 infidelity comedy, The Seven-Year Itch, with the figure imitating the instant that a blast of air raises her white dress.

Griddle

The vast majority of commercial grade griddles are made from A36 steel, though some are composed of stainless steel or even composites of aluminum and stainless steel.

Head Standard

A number of metal skis were introduced over the years, among them the 1942 All Magnesium, a post-war run of 1,000 Metalite aluminum skis from Chance Vought, the stainless steel Chris Ski, the aluminum Alu-60 (later known as the TEY True-Flex), the Dow Metal Air Ski, and the Gomme from the UK.

Japanese cutlery

Seki, Gifu is today considered the home of modern Japanese kitchen cutlery, where state-of-the-art manufacturing and technology has updated ancient forging skills to produce a world-class series of stainless and laminated steel kitchen knives famed throughout the world.

Leroy Petry

On 24 June 2013 a 9 foot tall bronze and stainless steel statue of Petry by George Rivera was unveiled at Santa Fe City Hall.

Magic: The Gathering video games

Magic: The Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers is a 2009 game for Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft Windows, and PS3 developed by Stainless Games Ltd and published by Wizards of the Coast.

Mazda Z engine

The block features split upper and lower block assembly for added strength and rigidity, special long intake manifold for added torque, S-VT continuous variable valve timing, and a stainless steel 4:1 exhaust header.

Michael J. Estocin

The award, originally sponsored by the McDonnell Douglas corporation, is a trophy with a polished black stone base and an 18 inch (46 cm) stainless steel ribbon topped with a stylized model of a strike fighter aircraft.

Monica Ritterband

Among Ritterband's artistic works are several candlesticks for the Holmegaard, a porcelain series Musica for Royal Copenhagen, tablecloths from Georg Jensen Damask and blankets for Egetæpper, a Danish blanket company, but she has also designed larger works of art; there are a series of stainless steel sculptures in the former municipality of Farum.

NACA Technical Note No. 842

#The aluminum alloys were anodic to stainless steel, nickel, monel and Inconel, and were severely attacked when exposed in contact with them.

Nameplate

The properties of the name plates that vary from application to application include: Material (including aluminum, stainless steel or titanium), thickness, Custom Graphics, Screen printing, Etching, and Anodizing, Photosensitive Anodized Aluminum, Adhesive backing, UL and CSA approval, Serialization, Military Standards and Embossing.

New South Wales U set

They were the first EMUs in NSW to feature stainless-steel construction using technology from the Budd Company, improving train acceleration and giving the trains lower maintenance costs and a longer usable life.

Outokumpu

In 1992, British Steel Stainless merged with the Swedish firm Avesta (as in Avesta Municipality) to form Avesta Sheffield, and in 2001 merged with Outokumpu, making it the third-largest stainless steel producing company in the world at the time.

Peeler

The stainless steel handled variant, the Zena Star peeler, was the model popularized by legendary New York City street hawker Joe Ades.

Power Jets W.1

The turbine blades were of Firth-Vickers Rex 78, a stainless steel developed under Dr. W. H Hatfield.

Razor

Soon Gillette, Schick, and other manufacturers were making stainless-steel blades.

Rick Goodman

In 2001, Stainless Steel, under Goodman, created Empire Earth.

Rundle Mall

The best-known is the 4m tall The Spheres by Bert Flugelman; two large stainless steel spheres with a diameter of 2.15 metres balanced one on top of the other.

Rustproof

Pierre Berthier, a Frenchman, was the first to notice the rust-resistant properties of mixing chromium with alloys in 1821, which led to new metal treating and metallurgy processes and eventually the creation of usable stainless steel.

Safety razor

As a result, American Safety Razor, Gillette and Schick were driven to produce stainless steel blades to compete.

Shannon Lush

Her latest book, Stainless (Co-Written with Trent Hayes) was released in 2010 and serves as a how-to book in understanding Shannon's stain removal techniques.

Strudyna

Project Title: Male Elephant Building Location: Sydney, Australia Owner: Taronga Zoo Architect: Jackson Teece Year of construction: 2009 Taronga Zoo features Structural Dynamic’s ‘Strudyna’ 16.0mm 1 X 19 stainless wire strand together with AM swage toggles and PBI rigging screws.

Tanjong Pagar MRT Station

There is an artwork called Stainless Steel Mobiles by artist Anthony Poon hanging from the ceiling on the station as well as a polymarble mural by Aw Tee Hong called Epic of Singapore.

The Stainless Steel Rat

Based on information in The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World it is possible to work out when the timeline is set: James is sent 32,598 years into the past to 1975, making events happen in and around 34,573 (in the 346th century) – although Professor Coypu also mentions that they are now using a different calendar to the Gregorian calendar.

The Chinese activist Liu Di, writing under the screen name "Stainless Steel Rat" (不锈钢老鼠), became a high-profile symbol for democracy and free speech in China since her detention in November 2002.

The MIT class ring, commonly referred to as "The Brass Rat," when cast in Celestrium (also known as jeweler's steel) is often referred to as "The Stainless Steel Rat" in reference to The Stainless Steel Rat series.

Transatlantic Years

#"Stainless Steel Wellies" (introduced by Connolly as "Govan Dunny Blues") (live, 1972)

Triumph T140W TSS

Mudguards were stainless steel as were the Italian Radaelli rims for the wire-spoked wheel option.

Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe

In 1962, Torun designed a stainless steel bangle-style wristwatch for an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

William H. Block Co.

During the expansion the building's interior and exterior was redesigned in a moderne style, including furnishings, stainless steel escalators, and two-story polished black marble and stainless steel facade entrances.

Zhan Wang

Closer also to the hood ornament look of boastful luxury that Jeff Koons seeks when he casts work in stainless steel," wrote The San Francisco Chronicle's Kenneth Baker in a review of the exhibit. "To underline the oddity of these contradictory qualities, and the colliding histories they evoke, Wang has a traditional wooden stand fabricated for each of his table-top rock pieces.


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