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    Dunfermline, Scotland. After he immigrated to the United States in 1858, he started with his first job as a telegrapher and then invested in railroads. With constant efforts, he established the Carnegie Steel Company in 1889 that was the largest steel company in the world. He made huge sums of money from the steel industry. This led him to become wealthy. • How he (or his related industries) treated workers. - The conditions of his work put out very harsh for workers. He thoroughly exploited…

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    Almost $200 billion is used for fixing and preventing the damage done by corrosion each year in the United States. The process of corrosion costs important money and resources. Iron and steel are the most important resources that corrode. About 20% of the steel and iron produced in the United States is used to repair bridges or pipelines that have suffered from the effects of corrosion. Corrosion occurs when metals, through chemical reactions, are broken down (“Corrosion,” 2008, paras. 1-2). The…

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    Andrew Carnegie is a self made steel tycoon and one of the wealthiest 19th century u.s. businessmen donated towards the expansion of the New York Public Library. Also Andrew Carnegie was born on november 25 1835 in Dunfermline Scotland. And after moving to the united states he worked a series of railroad jobs by. 1889 he owned Carnegie steel corporation the largest of its kind in the world in 1901 he sold his business ands dedicated his time to expanding his philanthropic work. including the…

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    Bluescope Case Summary

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    1. Summary: • BlueScope’s biggest steel factory in Australia----the Port Kembla Steelworks, is in serious economic trouble. The future of BlueScope Steel's Port Kembla plant is "on a knife edge”. • Weak demand, a global glut of cheap production, increased import competition and a stubbornly high Australian dollar are all incentives contribute to BlueScope’s dilemma. Among them, China’s cheap import is a key factor to bring pressure. • BlueScope’s top managers are considering layoffs to reduce…

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    Goal: Write a buyer’s guide for getting the first guitar. Title: Which Type of Guitar Is Best for Beginners? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since the 11th century, people all over the world have been playing stringed instruments similar to the guitar, and it has become an integral part of the uncountable musical tradition for generations. The guitar is one of the best and most popular music…

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    The Origins of Electric Guitar By: Pierce Bradley The electric guitar, an invention that’s not even a century old yet that has an intrinsic role in the history of music, especially the last 40 to 50 years having turned the guitar into an iconic figurehead and institution for musicians old and new. An though the electric guitar is less than a hundred years old it has ancestry in older, classical acoustic instruments built as early as 1779. The first electric guitar was dated in 1931. It’s a…

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    Guitar History

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    back the guitar designed was made. From that point forward, the guitar has been an incredible instrument. Many varieties of music have the guitar as a primary musical object. It is the most usually used in genres such as blues, rock, and flamenco, also in groups of the folklore music. Among acoustic guitar, and electric guitar were a significant step in advance in the history of the guitar. The guitar is a musical family of the stringed instrument. It has a flat and fitted body. The guitar is…

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    Bowl Harps Research Paper

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    married the steel-string guitar with a body constructed more like a cello, where the bridge exerts no torque on the top, only pressure straight down. This allows the top to vibrate more freely, and thus produce more volume. In the early 1920's designer Lloyd Loar joined Gibson, and refined the archtop "jazz" guitar into its now familiar form with f-holes, floating bridge and cello-type tailpiece.(3) The electric guitar was born when pickups were added to Hawaiian and "jazz" guitars in the late…

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    History Of Guitar Essay

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    Picking Strings Guitars can be traced back as far as 4,000 years ago. It’s been claimed the guitar maybe from a development of lute. Guitar is the element of surprise. Without a six string there wouldn’t be Blues, Country, and Rock and Roll or any genre in that matter. The masterpiece can come from the strings and homemade wood bodies itself. There are various types of guitars. All of them are very significant and clearly made to make any genre of music worth its wild. From well balanced…

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    High Manganese Steel Essay

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    development of Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS). The AHSS include Dual Phase (DP) steels, [1–10], High Strength Low Alloy steels (HSLA), Transformation Induced Plasticity (TRIP) steels, Twinning Induced Plasticity (TWIP) steels, and medium manganese steels, (Bouaziz et al., 2013). The majority of the research are focused on the development of third generation of steels due to interest in the mechanical properties of high manganese steels. Only recently the TWIP steels have received…

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