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  2. Art in bronze and brass - Wikipedia

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    Bronze weapon from the Mesara Plain, Crete. Copper came into use in the Aegean area near the end of the predynastic age of Egypt about 3500 BC. The earliest known implement is a flat celt, which was found on a Neolithic house-floor in the central court of the palace of Knossos in Crete, and is regarded as an Egyptian product.

  3. Door handle - Wikipedia

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    A pocket door handle is a recessed rectangular insert, typically with operating hardware called a door pull. [24] Door handles can also be called "handle sets". In addition there are door handles that are flush-mount and require pressing rather than turning or gripping, and there are touch-free, electronic, and motion-sensor door handles.

  4. Antikythera mechanism - Wikipedia

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    Antikythera mechanism. The Antikythera mechanism (fragment A – front and rear); visible is the largest gear in the mechanism, about 13 cm (5 in) in diameter. The Antikythera mechanism (/ ˌæntɪkɪˈθɪərə / AN-tik-ih-THEER-ə, US also / ˌæntaɪkɪˈ -/ AN-ty-kih-) [ 1 ][ 2 ] is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery (model of the Solar ...

  5. Lorenzo Ghiberti - Wikipedia

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    Lorenzo Ghiberti (UK: / ɡ ɪ ˈ b ɛər t i /, US: / ɡ iː ˈ-/, [1] [2] [3] Italian: [loˈrɛntso ɡiˈbɛrti]; 1378 – 1 December 1455), born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence, a key figure in the Early Renaissance, best known as the creator of two sets of bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, the later one called by Michelangelo the Gates of Paradise.

  6. Spring (device) - Wikipedia

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    In the Bronze Age more sophisticated spring devices were used, as shown by the spread of tweezers in many cultures. Ctesibius of Alexandria developed a method for making springs out of an alloy of bronze with an increased proportion of tin, hardened by hammering after it was cast. Coiled springs appeared early in the 15th century, [2] in door ...

  7. Bronze sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Bronze sculpture. The Victorious Youth (between 4th-2nd centuries BC), is a rare, water-preserved bronze from ancient Greece. Chinese ritual bronze, a Late Shang dǐng. Benin bronze of a woman's head. Gilt-bronze doors of the Baptistry of Florence Cathedral (Lorenzo Ghiberti, 1401–22). 9th-century bronze vessel in form of a snail shell ...

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