SIDANGKOU, China — By day, the factory workers pound sheets of brass into cylinders and slather metal buttons with glue.
Each raft has a 200-pound sheet of steel inside that responds to the magnetic pull exerted by linear induction motors beneath the surface.
Yes, if you add caramel and roasted almonds and call them Belgian triple-chocolate caramel almond brownies; two-and-a-half-pound sheet pan, $38, including shipping.
Named the 1041 after its numerical place in the Georg Jensen archives, the contemporary piece, handcrafted from a 35-pound sheet of silver, was unveiled at a small ceremony at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art north of Copenhagen on May 8, which would have been Mr. Koppel's 100th birthday (he died in 1981).
His "Atlas" wallboard installation machine, designed with the help of a team of fellow MIT students, lifts and positions 120-pound sheets of wallboard onto vaulted ceilings and walls up to 15 feet in height.
From the late 1800s through the 1940s, it housed a bronze powder mill, where large hammers pounded sheets of bronze into powder that was used in inks, labels, flocked wallpaper and other decorations.
Donning bright-blue smocks, employees work around the clock, pounding sheets of metal into aircraft parts or fusing electronics onto circuit boards.
A chubby man in his forties was pounding a sheet of paper laid on a pillow.
NOT too long ago, cars meant steel -- thousands of pounds of sheet steel, shaped steel and steel fasteners.
We didn't think data submission to a trade association was a high-risk part of what we were running when we had a trillion-pound balance sheet that needed to be managed.
It sounds as if my car is being pounded by sheet metal.
