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Rosie The Riveter
Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the 6 million women who manned the manufacturing plants which produced munitions and material during World War II while the men (who traditionally performed this work) were off fighting the war. This "character" is now considered a feminist icon in the U.S., and a herald of women's economic power to come.
The image most iconically associated with Rosie is J. Howard Miller's famous poster for Westinghouse, entitled ''We Can Do It!'' (at left), which is thought to have been created in 1942. However, the character in this painting was not named. Subsequently, a song by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb, entitled ''Rosie the Riveter'', was released in early 1943. http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/journey/rosie-transcript.html
The final connection between the name of Rosie and the character was made by Norman Rockwell for his eponymous cover for the May 29 1943 ''Saturday Evening Post'', which depicted a different Rosie who was nevertheless recognisable as a spiritual sister of Miller's character. http://www.rosietheriveter.org/painting.htm It is not clear whether Rockwell had seen the Miller poster.
Rosie The Riveter
Rosie the Riveter
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Rosie the Riveter: "We Can Do It!" - Many women first found economic strength in World War II-era manufacturing jobs.Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the women who manned the manufacturing plants which produced munitions and material during World War II while the men (who traditionally performed this work) were off fighting the war. This "character" is now considered a feminist icon in the U.S., and a herald of women's economic power to come.
The image most iconically associated with Rosie is J. Howard Miller's famous poster for Westinghouse, entitled We Can Do It! (at left), which is thought to have been created in 1942. However, the character in this painting was not named. Subsequently, a song by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb, entitled Rosie the Riveter, was released in early 1943. 1 (http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/journey/rosie-transcript.html)
A US stamp in 1999 featuring the same poster: "Celebrate the Century - 1940s - Women Support the War Effort"The final connection between the name of Rosie and the character was made by Norman Rockwell for his eponymous cover for the May 29, 1943 Saturday Evening Post, which depicted a different Rosie who was nevertheless recognisable as a spiritual sister of Miller's character. 2 (http://www.rosietheriveter.org/painting.htm) It is not clear whether Rockwell had seen the Miller poster.
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The Life And Times Of Rosie The Riveter
''The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter'' is a 1980 documentary film which tells about the American women who went to work during World War II to do "men's jobs." The film is 65 minutes long and was directed by Connie Field. It has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress, thereby allowing it to be preserved in the U.S. National Film Registry.
The film's title refers to "Rosie the Riveter," the cultural icon that represents women who manned the manufacturing plants which produced munitions and material during World War II.
Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, The
Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, The
Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, The
Rosie The Riveter / World War II Home Front National Historical Park
Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front National Historical Park is located in Richmond, California, near San Francisco, at the site of a former Ford Motor Company manufacturing plant.
Ford employed thousands of workers at the site during World War II, many of them women who were entering the work force for the first time. Rosie the Riveter was a period song representing these women.
http://www.nps.gov/rori Official Site at U.S. National Parks Service
http://www.ford.com/go/rosie Ford-National Parks Foundation Site
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Rivet
thumb|right|350px|A rivetted buffer beam on a steam locomotive
A rivet is a mechanical fastener consisting of a smooth cylindrical shaft with heads on either end, the second one formed in position. The heads are somewhat larger than the diameter of the hole into which the rivet has been inserted. Generally one head is factory formed. The other is formed by clenching metal after the rivet has been inserted.
This can be done with a solid rivet), either by applying force by holding up the head end with a dolly and clenching the other with a manual or a pneumatic hammer or with a die over the end to be clenched, by squeezing rivet and work together with a press. Portable presses for the job are usually pneumatic.
Blind rivets are tubular and are supplied with a mandrel through the centre. The rivet assembly is inserted into a hole drilled through the parts to be joined and a specially designed tool used to draw the mandrel into the rivet. This expands the blind end of the rivet and the mandrel snaps. This gives the rivets their common name of ''pop rivet''. (See blind rivet)
There are a number of types of rivets: solid rivets, blind rivets, multi-grip rivets, grooved type rivets, Peel Type Blind Rivets, plastic rivets, drive rivets, tubular rivets, etc. Fastenings used in traditional wooden boat building like copper nails and clench bolts work on the principle of the rivet but they were in use long before the term rivet was invented. So, where they are remembered, they are usually classified among the nails and bolts respectively.
Before welding techniques and bolted joints were developed, metal framed buildings and structures such as the Eiffel Tower and the Sydney Harbour Bridge were generally held together by riveting. Riveting is still widely used in applications where light weight and high strength are critical, such as in airplanes.
Common but more exotic uses of rivets are to
Elise Rivet
Elise Rivet born January 19, 1890, in Draria, Algeria – died March 30,1945, Ravensbrück, Germany, was a Roman Catholic nun and war heroine.
The daughter of a French naval officer, she joined the convent of the medical sisters, "Notre Dame de Compassion" in Lyon. In 1933 she became "Mère Marie Elisabeth de l'Eucharistie," the convent's Mother Superior. After the fall of France to Germany in World War II, she made the decision to fight evil and began to hide refugees from the Gestapo and eventually used her convent to store weapons and ammunition for the Mouvements Unis de Résistance (MUR).
On March 24, 1944 she and her assistant were arrested by the Gestapo and taken to the prison at Fort Montluc in Lyon. From there she was taken to Romainville before being shipped to Ravensbrück concentration camp near Berlin, Germany. There, stripped of her religious garments, she was forced into hard labor. With the end of the War in sight, the Germans began a massive amount of killings in the gas chamber including a weakened and starving Mother Elise Rivet, on March 30,1945 only weeks before the war ended.
In 1961, the government of France honored her with her portrait on a postage stamp and a street bearing her name in Brignais (Lyon) was inaugurated on December 2, 1979. In 1997, she was posthumously awarded the Médaille des Justes and in 1999 the "''Salle Elise Rivet''" was named for her at the Institut des Sciences de l'Homme in Lyon.
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Rivet, Elise
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Golden Rivet
In naval folklore there is a tale that every ship is built containing a single, commemorative "golden rivet"— an idea doubtless adapted from the golden spike that was temporarily driven at the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. The rivet's location is allegedly different for each ship and undisclosed, known only to the crew. Of course no such thing exists: gold is too malleable to use for a rivet; like many urban legends the "golden rivet" is perpetuated for the amusement of "old salts" at the expense of the gullible.
Most often the myth is used as a practical joke or snipe hunt played on junior sailors, exploiting their naivety and natural curiosity with their new surroundings. The prank consists of informing a new sailor of the existence of the "golden rivet", and encouraging him to look for it. After scouring the entire ship without success, it eventually dawns on the junior that he has been the butt of a joke.
In a crueler addition to the gag, a senior sailor calls attention to the rivet somewhere in the deck plating; then as the junior bends over to look at it, he is given a kick in the backside. Sometimes the snipe hunt is dispensed with altogether, with the senior sailor merely pointing to a spot on the deck and inviting the junior examine it.
As navies around the world are increasingly the target of criticism regarding victimization, the "golden rivet" gag can be seen as a fairly harmless form of initiation.
A ''search for the golden rivet'' is a fool's errand.
Other steel structures said to contain a golden rivet include the Forth Rail Bridge and the Empire State Building.
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