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Cast iron pans with flat bottoms came into use when cooking stoves appeared in the mid 1800's. Before that, kettles and pots were the main utensils in open fireplaces, ovens and pits.
The Iron Lady is the most common nickname for the Eiffel Tower.
While the name, the “Eiffel Tower”, entered the common language at the time of its inauguration, its female nature appeared more gradually over the 20th century. Of course, it can be traced back to the fact that the noun “tour” or tower in French is feminine. And if we add a bit of anthropomorphism, we can see that the monument’s four pillars, also known as legs or feet, are covered with a lacy “skirt”, from the mesh structure enhanced with fine decorative arches between the pillars.
As a symbol of the arrival of iron, industry and science, the Eiffel Tower can also be seen to be in an atypical conversation with another lady of Paris, her Gothic older sister and symbol of religion, Notre-Dame.
In the 1930s, when the Tower was nearing 50 years old, various nicknames flourished in the press and publications: “the Tall Lady”, “the Tall Beautiful Lady”, then “the Tall Iron Lady”, sometimes, remarking on her age, it was “the Old Iron Lady”... However, it was simply “the Iron Lady” which stuck and was picked up particularly by the press.
Text source: Tower’s official website.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... “Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.” - by Leonardo da Vinci
What a contrast we have here, which the daisy as pure life of glowing out in the radiant beauty in the sunshine of delicacy and on the other hand the Iron, just glimmers out the charm of decay of rustic age, that is peeling away and shows us the textures of the sweet life to us!
Many times I have walked by, this spot on the Castle Fields Boat Docks of the Black Country Museum. And this time I spotted these side-by-side together that was bedded in concrete, of an Iron bar standing so proudly with this charming daisy and overlooking the Narrowboats, that lies in the graveyard of the canal boats around here.
The beauty we have photography that can be created by the simplest things, that lies around us and yet we tend to overlook what possibility that arise!
A fence from my childhood evokes many precious memories. My grandfather was installed it back in 1939, but it is still in excellent condition.
An iron staircase between the two wings of the mostly-abandoned 1904 Dugan-Stuart Building in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Lorena wrought iron bed set by Dreamland Designs available @ SWANK Event ending 31 Jan.
Set includes the curtains, Heater, Nights stands with decor, and of course the lovely Wrought iron bed
The 1858 cast iron "Little Cary"building located at 620 Broadway in the NoHo (an acronym for North of Houston St) section of downtown Manhattan.It's labeled as the "little Cary Building"because it's a near copy of a building (also a cast iron structure) built two years before it on 105 Chambers St called by that name.Cast iron façades was an early invention back then and it was used on buildings to make them look like masonry,and they were cheaper than cement.If you zoom in you can see the metal nuts still fastened to the wall and the faux masonry bricks,and even some signs of rust.The six-story,palazzo like structure had to quickly be put up because another building where new inventions from the 1858 World's Fair were being displayed had burned down,some newer items were shown at this new one.That was another reason for the cast iron facade on the new building,because the material was considered "fire proof"daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2012/01/1858-cast-iron-no-...
Further on up the road, the 501 keeps trucking north towards Channing with a few scrap gons from Iron Mountain and a modest cut of pulpwood. These exact rails once carried the Milwaukee Road's lesser-known "Copper Country Limited", a secondary passenger service between Chicago and the northern reaches of Michigan's upper peninsula at Hancock that amazingly held on until the late 1960's.
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Sorry no ducks on this creek ..think they flew south. A lovely old iron bridge - no longer for trains but bikes and humans can walk across.
Periodic Table – Macro Monday. This week was undecided until doing a bit of metal filing and ended up with all of these iron filings on the end of the file, IRON FE (26). HMM
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Today is a red day at Color my World Daily and the theme at Macro Mondays is iron. I have a hate / love relationship with iron. I had an iron deficiency for several years, so I had to take iron quite often. I’m always stressing about having enough iron in my blood… So that is the hate part. As for the love part: I absolutely love to take macro pictures of anything iron and the more texture the better. I truly enjoyed taking pictures for this theme and I hope you will like it. Have a great Monday my friends !
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An eastbound BNSF grain empty drops downgrade out of Weed, Montana, and through expansive Iron Ridge cut on Montana Rail Link’s Mullan Pass on the morning of June 29, 2022. The cut bypasses the old Northern Pacific tunnel through the ridge—the east portal can be seen on the right side of the photo, and a tiny corner of the west portal is above the light gray hopper four cars from the power.
Waking up, re-booting to the professional self, putting on the iron mask that helps us to brave daily life. Samyang mirror reflex lens fixed at F6.3.