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A schematic of the curling process The four steps to create a full curl. Curling is a sheet metal forming process used to form the edges into a hollow ring. Curling can be performed to eliminate sharp edges and increase the moment of inertia near the curled end. [1] Other parts are curled to perform their primary function, such as door hinges.
Theora Stephens is an American hairdresser [1] widely credited with a 1980 patent for "a more efficient pressing and curling iron." [ 2 ] Another source says Stephens “created the pressing/ curling iron in 1983.“ [ 3 ]
historical image of hair irons (top) A hair iron or hair tong is a tool used to change the arrangement of the hair using heat. There are three general kinds: curling irons, used to make the hair curl; straightening irons, commonly called straighteners or flat irons, used to straighten the hair; and crimping irons, used to create crimps of the desired size in the hair.
Yorkshire iron was used for shackles, hooks and piston rods for locomotives, colliery cages and other mining appliances where toughness was required. The Low Moor Company also made pig iron and the company employed 1,500 men in 1929. [11] when the municipal borough of Bradford was created in 1847 there were 46 coal mines within its boundaries ...
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Curling's recent popularity has swelled the USCA to 185 curling clubs and approximately 23,500 curlers in the United States. [1] The United States Olympic men's curling teams have seen success in recent years, most notably winning the gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang , led by skip John Shuster .
The curl of a vector field F, denoted by curl F, or , or rot F, is an operator that maps C k functions in R 3 to C k−1 functions in R 3, and in particular, it maps continuously differentiable functions R 3 → R 3 to continuous functions R 3 → R 3.
A map of all active curling clubs in the United States. This is a list of the curling clubs in the United States. In October 2022, the membership of USA Curling ratified the board of directors' vote to remove the Grand National Curling Club (GNCC) as a regional association. Some clubs opted to leave USA Curling while retaining membership in the ...