Sentences with phrase «metal in a junkyard»

I was just a pile of scrap metal in a junkyard.

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The county IDA paid $ 787,500 in 2015 to buy the 23 - acre Roth property at 800 Hiawatha Blvd. W. from American Iron & Metal Co., which had planned to open a junkyard at the polluted site.

The research team, which consists of graduates and undergraduates in Vanderbilt's interdisciplinary materials science program and department of mechanical engineering, describe this achievement in a paper titled «From the Junkyard to the Power Grid: Ambient Processing of Scrap Metals into Nanostructured Electrodes for Ultrafast Rechargeable Batteries» published online this week in the journal ACS Energy Letters.

In The Selfish Giant, best friends Arbor and Swifty spend their days collecting scrap metal and copper wire for a local junkyard owner.

In this case, we have a mid-1990s Honda Accord coupe that I spotted during my Half Off Everything at the Junkyard Day New Year's celebration, and it has an innovative trailer - hitch installation that may have contributed to the car's sudden downturn in resale value and resulting entry into the scrap - metals food chaiIn this case, we have a mid-1990s Honda Accord coupe that I spotted during my Half Off Everything at the Junkyard Day New Year's celebration, and it has an innovative trailer - hitch installation that may have contributed to the car's sudden downturn in resale value and resulting entry into the scrap - metals food chaiin resale value and resulting entry into the scrap - metals food chain.

He put Westover to work in his junkyard, sorting scrap metal when she was merely 10.

In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged metal in her father's junkyarIn the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged metal in her father's junkyarin the winter she salvaged metal in her father's junkyarin her father's junkyard.

Three or four times a year, he scavenges junkyards for scrap metal, selecting rubbish that in his studio will become his art supplies.

He created his first welded steel sculpture in 1952, with scrap metal he bought from junkyards along the Seine, and he had his first major exhibitions of them two years later.

Peter Buggenhout, a Belgian artist showing at Gladstone Gallery, covered a junkyard's worth of scrap metal, wood and other found objects with vacuum cleaner dust to create what I described in the review as «massive stacks of debris [that] hang off the wall or sprawl across the floor in a state of dereliction and collapse, monumental castoffs from a world spinning out of control.»

Emerging from the New York scene in the 1950s, John Chamberlain first became known for welded metal sculptures that looked like the products of some used - car junkyard, which is exactly what they were.

Later galleries present two of his most ambitious technological experiments, both made in collaboration with engineers: Oracle (with Billy Klüver, Harold Hodges, Per Biorn, Toby Fitch, and Robert K. Moore, 1962 — 65), a five - part sculpture that combines salvaged metal junkyard treasures with the most advanced wireless transistor circuitry, and Mud Muse (with Frank LaHaye, Lewis Ellmore, George Carr, Jim Wilkinson, Carl Adams, and Petrie Mason Robie, 1968 — 71), a vat of 8,000 pounds of drillers» mud, which burbles like a primeval tar pit in syncopation with sound - activated air compressors.