The etching method that [Switch and Lever] uses to get down to brass plaques will be intimately familiar to anyone who has etched a PCB before. Ferric chloride works as well on brass as it does on ...

The real treat though is the hand engraving, a skill that [Uri] has clearly ... from the contrasting brass and steel parts to the choice of complex Arabic script for the markings.

The engraved slate plaques were part of an extensive and variable class of ritual objects in Late Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia, with Classic plaques being the most numerous and standardized type.

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THE Chladni plates in use at the present time for producing nodal lines are ordinarily made of brass, ten inches square (or ten inches in diameter if circular) and one eighth or one sixteenth of ...

Some of the prehistoric slate engraved plaques found in tombs in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Credit: Eduardo Estellez / K. Lillios / Antonio Valera / V. Hurtado / Museus e Monumentos de ...

A plaque paying tribute to an “adulterous” husband has provoked an artistic row after it was mysteriously placed on a park bench. The brass plate was installed on a wooden seat in Royal York Crescent ...

A church has slammed a group of activists for installing an illegal brass plaque at a memorial to a slave trader. The inscription beneath the marble dedication to Thomas Corker inside King ...

Or maybe you need only a handful of extra plates for a holiday gathering. Others, who are upgrading their outdated dinnerware, setting up their first home, or filling out their wedding registry ...

The Camel Trophy was a multi-day, multi-nation, mega-budget off-road adventure competition taking place every year for a good chunk of the 1980s and ’90s. If you have any interest in overlanding or ...

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