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2. Aluminium bronze - Wikipedia

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   Aluminium bronze is a type of bronze in which aluminium is the main alloying metal added to copper, in contrast to standard bronze (copper and tin) or brass ...

3. Boat building - Wikipedia

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   Aluminum and aluminum alloys are used both in sheet form for all-metal hulls or for isolated structural members. Many sailing spars are frequently made of aluminium after 1960. It is the lightest material for building large boats (being 15–20% lighter than polyester and 30% lighter than steel).

4. Rivet - Wikipedia

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   Drawing of round head rivets, 1898 A typical technical drawing of a universal head solid rivet Riveters work on the Liberty ship SS John W. Brown (December 2014).. Rivet holes have been found in Egyptian spearheads dating back to the Naqada culture of between 4400 and 3000 B.C. Archeologists have also uncovered many Bronze Age swords and daggers with rivet holes where the handles would have been.

5. Bronze - Wikipedia

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   Bronze, or bronze-like alloys and mixtures, were used for coins over a longer period. Bronze was especially suitable for use in boat and ship fittings prior to the wide employment of stainless steel owing to its combination of toughness and resistance to salt water corrosion. Bronze is still commonly used in ship propellers and submerged bearings.

6. Ancient shipbuilding techniques - Wikipedia

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   Ancient boat building methods can be categorized as one of hide, log, sewn, lashed-plank, clinker (and reverse-clinker), shell-first, and frame-first. While the frame-first technique dominates the modern ship construction industry , the ancients relied primarily on the other techniques to build their watercraft.

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