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It's strong enough, cheap enough and easy enough to work with.

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How did the wright brothers work in their bicycle shop?

They built bicycles. This is why their airplane used bicycle parts (sprockets and chains) in the drive train between the engine and the propellor shafts.


Why didn't the Romans use aluminum as weapons?

The Romans did not use aluminium for weapons because they did not know it was a metal. Even if they had known, aluminium they would not have used it to make weapoun because it is too soft this.Aluminium was identified as a metal only in 1808. This is because aluminium never occurs in metallic or natural forms in nature. The main source of aluminium is bauxite, a heterogeneous material which ranges from clay through to soft rock and can be white, pink, yellow, red or brown, or various combinations of these colours. It is composed mainly of one or more hydroxides of aluminium (50-60 %) and various mixtures of silicon, oxides of iron, titanium, and varying small percentages of clay and other silicates.Bauxite first appeared in history around the fifth century B.C. when the Egyptians and the Greeks used it as an astringent for dressing wounds and to fix dyes in textiles. This use as such continued until the Middle Ages. By the thirteenth century, some purification of aluminium was occurring and by the seventeenth century, it was being separated from the clays in which it was found. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, there was a suspicion that alumina had a metallic base which could probably be isolated. This was confirmed by the Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier in 1787.Producing aluminium is not easy. In 1808, Sir Humphrey Davy, attempted to isolate the metal using electrolysis, but managed only to produce aluminium alloyed with iron. The first small amount of aluminium were created in 1825 Hans Christian Oersted, and in 1827 by Friedrich Wöhler. The same time Robert Wilhelm von Bunsen, demonstrated that aluminium could be purified using electrolysis. The basis for the modern aluminium industry was established in 1886.


What type of Wheel brakes are used to stop the aircraft on the runway?

Aircraft have disc brakes, but they're different from automotive disc brakes: the calipers are the same size as the rotors and they have pads going all the way around. On a really big plane, like an airliner, there are multiple discs.


What is EVA Tires?

they are the tires made from EVA(ethlyne vinyl acetate), commonly used in kids bicycle and baby prams....


Are chariots used in the present day?

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