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the unsung metal stitch that held together skyscrapers, ships, and the entire industrial age

hot workInstalled glowing red, then hammered to shrink-grip tight
liberty shipsWelding replaced rivets to build them faster in WWII
titanic theoryWeak rivets blamed for the hull's fatal failure
toss teamsWorkers threw red-hot rivets across steel beams
rivetingThe word means gripping precisely because rivets grip
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