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Ceramic material is an inorganic, metallic oxide, nitride, or carbide material. Some elements, such as carbon or silicon, may be considered ceramics. Ceramic materials are brittle, hard, strong in compression, and weak in shearing and tension. They withstand the chemical erosion that occurs in other materials subjected to acidic or caustic ...
Castanets, also known as clackers or palillos, are a percussion instrument ( idiophone ), used in Spanish, Calé, Moorish, [ 1] Ottoman, Italian, Mexican, Sephardic, Portuguese and Swiss music. In ancient Greece and ancient Rome there was a similar instrument called the crotalum . The instrument consists of a pair of concave shells joined on ...
Erector Set. Erector Set (trademark styled as "ERECTOR") was a brand of metal toy construction sets which were originally patented by Alfred Carlton Gilbert and first sold by his company, the Mysto Manufacturing Company of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1913. In 1916, the company was reorganized as the A. C. Gilbert Company.
Knucklebones, also known as scatter jacks, snobs, astragaloi ( singular: astragalus), tali, dibs, fivestones, jacks, jackstones, or jinks, among many other names, [ 1] is a game of dexterity played with a number of small objects that are thrown up, caught, and manipulated in various manners. It is ancient in origin and is found in various ...
Metal toys (1 C, 12 P) P. Platinum objects (2 C) S. Silver objects (3 C, 105 P) Steel objects (1 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Metallic objects"
Marble (toy) German handmade marbles dating from the 1850s – 1880s on an antique solitaire gaming board. Kids playing 'Kancha' Marble (toy) game near Shambhunath Temple, Nepal. A marble is a small spherical object often made from glass, clay, steel, plastic, or agate. They vary in size, and most commonly are about 13 mm ( 1⁄2 in) in diameter.
Pewter ( / ˈpjuːtər /) is a malleable metal alloy consisting of tin (85–99%), antimony (approximately 5–10%), copper (2%), bismuth, and sometimes silver. [ 1] In the past it was an alloy of tin and lead, but most modern pewter, in order to prevent lead poisoning, is not made with lead. Pewter has a low melting point, around 170–230 °C ...
The set of wafer-like metal stamp types could be assembled to form pages, inked, and page impressions taken from rubbings on cloth or paper. [17] In 1322, a Fenghua county officer Ma Chengde (馬称德) in Zhejiang, made 100,000 wooden movable types and printed the 43-volume Daxue Yanyi (《大學衍義》). Wooden movable types were used ...