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3 unusual facts about ceramic


Ceramics

Ceramic, an inorganic, nonmetallic solid prepared by the action of heat and subsequent cooling

Suzu, Ishikawa

Ceramics: Portable stoves called Shichirin and Suzu-yaki pottery are the chief ceramic goods produced in the cith.

Thangadh

A large number of small-scale Ceramic manufacturing units are located around Thangadh.


Agigawa Dam

The same area features a number of other attractions such as Ena Gorge, Iwamura Castle (made famous in the tale of the "Castle Mistress"), Japan Taishō Village (a theme park), the cities of Toki and Mizunami, which are well known for the production of Mino ceramic ware and Oribe ware; Magome-juku and Tsumago-juku, two stations on the Nakasendō, a road that connected Kyōto and Edo; Meiji Mura, and Inuyama Castle.

Ancient Roman pottery

The more typical Gallic production begins within the ceramic ateliers in Marseille during the late Augustan times.

Art doll

Work in high demand- such as the elaborate ball-jointed ceramic dolls of Marina Bychkova -fetch prices from $5,000 to $45,000, and are collected by the likes of Louis Vuitton designers.

Audun-le-Tiche

The Villeroy & Boch ceramic manufacturing company was founded in 1748 in Audun by François Boch.

Banwari Trace

Banwari Trace, an Archaic (pre-ceramic) site in southwestern Trinidad, is presumably the oldest archaeological site in the Caribbean.

Beatrice De Cardi

De Cardi's work there involved collecting surface materials (including ceramic sherds, copper objects, bone and flint) from a number of sites in Jhalawan.

Bostik

Biscem manufactures and sells ready-mixed and cementitious based tiling adhesives and grouting systems into the ceramic tiling market in the UK and Ireland, and on 14 April 2006, Bostik Ltd acquired Wetherby Stone Products Ltd in Dalton, Thirsk, North Yorkshire.

Boston Guildhall

In the Court Room are a set of ceramic tiles designed by John Moyr Smith depicting various scenes from Shakespearian plays; they date around 1878 and were made at the Minton China Works, Stoke-on-Trent.

Ceradyne

Ceradyne is also the producer of ceramic Enhanced Small Arms Protective Inserts (E-SAPI) for the US Army's Interceptor body armor, and the blast-proof components of the Ceradyne BULL MRAP/MMPV vehicle project.

Cerâmica Atlético Clube

Cerâmica Atlético Clube, usually known as simply as Cerâmica, is a Brazilian football club from Gravataí, Rio Grande do Sul state, founded by the workers of the Ceramic of Gravataí.

Chanel J12

The range is known for its black and white high-tech ceramic watches worn by celebrities such as Sharon Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne, Fearne Cotton, Dale Winton and others.

Chicken gun

In the 1970s, Goodyear Aerospace in Litchfield Park, Arizona, United States, used a gun with a ceramic diaphragm to seal the compressed air in the tank from the gun's barrel.

Christopher Dresser

If his ceramic work from the 1860s onwards (for firms such as Mintons, Wedgwood, Royal Worcester, Watcombe, Linthorpe, Old Hall at Hanley and Ault) is considered, he must be amongst the most influential ceramic designers of any period.

Émile Lessore

Emile painted a variety of ceramic pieces, many for the Wedgwood pottery company.

Emma Bossons

Bossons’ career began as a painter or ceramic painter at Mason’s Ironstone (a subsidiary of Wedgwood) in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.

Gächlingen

About 6000 BC, a group of Linear Band Ceramic Culture farmers moved south over the Danube river.

Gilda Gray

She also appeared on stage in Cleveland, and became the subject for two very popular ceramic sculptures by Waylande Gregory, "The Nautch Dancer," and "The Burlesque Dancer".

Grand Trianon

The façade was made of white and blue Delft-style "porcelain" (ceramic) tiles from the French manufactures of Rouen, Lisieux, Nevers and Saint-Cloud.

Guangdong Provincial Museum

The next section on the ground floor is an exhibition of modern ceramic figures done in traditional Shiwan (Foshan) style.

Henri de Jordan

In the 1960s, he even worked on ceramic decoration at Sant Vicens (Perpignan) as like as Picasso at Madoura (Vallauris).

Herend

Founded in 1826, Herend Porcelain is one of the world's largest ceramic factories, specializing in luxury hand painted and gilded porcelain.

Industrial district

Industrial districts in Central and Northeastern Italy have a coherent location and a narrow specialisation profile, e.g. Prato in woolen fabric, Sassuolo in ceramic tiles or Brenta in ladies' footwear.

Joan Takayama-Ogawa

She received her Bachelors of Arts at UCLA in Geography and East Asian Studies, Masters of Arts in Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and ceramic education at Otis College of Art and Design, in Los Angeles, California.

Kandarodai

In 1970, the University of Pennsylvania museum team excavated a ceramic sequence remarkably similar to that of Arikamedu, with a Pre-rouletted ware period, subdivided into an earlier "Megalithic", a later "Pre-rouletted ware phase," followed by a "Rouletted ware period".

Kerschenbach

Furthermore, they came not from Rome, but rather from the Kannenbäckerland (“Jug Bakers’ Land”, a small region still known for its ceramics industry) in the Westerwaldkreis, also in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Lahainaluna High School

The campus boasts the ceramic sculpture Orbit by Toshiko Takaezu.

Lanai High and Elementary School

The campus boasts the wood sculpture Lanai Ohana by Ken Shutt, the ceramic sculpture The Pool Committee by Kay Mura-Davidson, and the mixed media sculpture Torch to Lana'i's Youth by Bruce Paul Fink.

Machining

Machining is a part of the manufacture of many metal products, but it can also be used on materials such as wood, plastic, ceramic, and composites.

Murata Manufacturing

products = Monolithic Ceramic capacitors, SAW filters, Ceramic resonators, Piezoelectric sensors, Ceramic filters, Piezoelectric Buzzers, Short-range wireless, Communication modules (including Bluetooth®) modules, Multilayer ceramic devices, Connectors, Isolators, Power supplies, Circuit modules, EMI Suppression filters, Inductor (coils), Sensors

National Institute of Technology Rourkela

Ranjan Dash (Ceramic), Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Y-Carbon, USA.

Oriental Ceramic Society

Notable members of the Oriental Ceramic Society include Stephen Wootton Bushell, Jean Martin, Mary Tregear, Margaret Medley, Frances Wood (Editor of the Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society).

Paul Huxley

He was commissioned to make 22 ceramic mural designs for King's Cross railway station in 1984, and has also produced work for the Rambert Dance Company (1991) and Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (2001).

Petalite

The first important economic application for petalite was as a raw material for the glass-ceramic cooking ware CorningWare.

Philippines–Thailand relations

There were also ceramic wares from Sukhothai and Sawankhalok found in Luzon and Visayas region as evidence of early relations.

Poole Pottery

The Carter company produced much of the ceramic tiling used on London Underground stations built in the 1930s and, of particular note, made the relief tiles, designed by Stabler, showing symbols of London–some of these can still be seen on stations such as Bethnal Green.

Portsmouth Cathedral

The north tower transept contains a ceramic plaque of the Virgin and Child by the Florentine sculptor Andrea della Robbia.

R. A. Stewart Macalister

Using advances in stratigraphy building on the work of Flinders Petrie, they developed a chronology for the region using ceramic typology.

Robert L. Coble

Robert L. Coble (1928 – August 27, 1992) was an American ceramic scientist, notable for his discovery of Coble creep, the effect that carries his name, and for his invention of Lucalox.

Roger Naslain

Dr. Naslain is the author or co-author of more than 300 articles, co-author of 17 patents, and editor or co-editor of eight books on composite materials and four special issues of scientific journals devoted to ceramic-matrix composites.

Shigaraki train disaster

A special JR West rapid service train (501D) from Kyoto bound for Shigaraki had entered the Shigaraki Line at Kibukawa Station from the Kusatsu Line, transporting 716 passengers to the World Ceramic Festival that was being held in Shigaraki at the time.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Hughenden

When the church extension work was carried out, the floor was covered with ceramic tiles designed by Edward William Godwin and the walls decorated with 1881 wall paintings in the Aesthetic Movement style by Heaton, Butler and Bayne that depict the Nativity, the Four Evangelists and the Prophets.

Stoke Minster

There are ceramic memorials in the church to many of the great potters of the district and there is a fine modern memorial to the great football player Sir Stanley Matthews.

Taree High School

In addition to the mandated, more traditional areas of study, the school offers unique study units such as Bush and Camp Crafts, Surf Survival, Ceramics and Robotics.

Teco pottery

The American Terra Cotta Tile and Ceramic Company was founded in 1881; originally as Spring Valley Tile Works; in Terra Cotta, Illinois, between Crystal Lake, Illinois and McHenry, Illinois near Chicago by William Day Gates.

Tini

Titanium nitride, an extremely hard ceramic material, often used as a coating to improve surface properties

Vhrsti

He graduated from technical high school in Carlsbad, ceramic (porcelain visual processing) and the Faculty of Education at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (field of visual culture).

Vietnamese ceramics

One of the noteworthy examples of modern ceramic art is the Hanoi Ceramic Mosaic Mural, which is affixed on the wall of the dyke system of Hanoi.

Wemyss Ware

The pottery took its name from the Wemyss family, titled incumbents of Wemyss Castle on the east coast of Fife, who were early and enthusiastic patrons of Nekola and Heron's ceramic creations.


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