Car crusher

A car crusher is an industrial device used to reduce the dimensions of derelict (depreciated) cars prior to transport for recycling. 
Car crushers are compactors and can be of several types: one is a "pancake", where a scrap automobile is flattened by a huge descending hydraulically powered plate, or a baling press type, with which the automobile is compressed from several directions until it resembles a large cube. A third type is a mobile crusher. It is small enough that it can be moved from location to location with a semi truck. This machine utilizes a much smaller plate that crushes the vehicle in sections, as it is slowly fed through the machine.
Types of car crushers.
Car crushing machine.
One of the first car crushing machines was invented by Allen B. Sharp and Richard A. Hull, both assignors to Al-Jon Incorporated located in Ottumwa, Iowa. The patent for the machine was filed on March 22, 1965 and patented on August 16, 1966. This United States Patent was primarily examined by Walter A. Scheel. 
The reason they came up with this invention is because scrap cars were too big and bulky to transport to the sites that turned them into reusable material, and the cost to transport them was uneconomical because, at times, it would cost more to send it than the car was worth, because transportation costs were determined by weight. Since uncrushed cars were less dense and took up more space, even for a short haul, the scrap cars were worth less than it cost to deliver them. 
Before then, car crushing methods consisted of dropping heavy weights on cars, which was time consuming, sometimes costly, and produced inconsistent scrap sizes. With this car crushing machine, a car is fed through a hydraulically powered jaw and is slowly flattened as it goes through, similar to how a pasta machine flattens pasta dough. The car scraps are flattened into dimensions of six inches tall by five to six feet wide, similar to the length of its original size. The design of this machine is meant to be portable so it can move to anywhere cars have been gathered by being within the legal size of highway transport. The machine can be operated by a single person.
Mobile car crusher.
The mobile car crusher was invented by Charlie Roy Hall in the city of Wadley, Georgia in the year 1996 and was patented on August 12, 1997. The primary examiner of this United States patent was Stephen F. Gerrity. As a condensed version of a standard car crusher, a mobile car crusher has a smaller opening with lower output, so it can crush only smaller sized, C-class cars. This machine is mobile as a result of its dual functions: a travel mode for highways, which is when the hydraulic cylinder guiding posts are lowered, and a working mode, when the hydraulic cylinder guiding posts are raised. There are two guiding posts on either side of the machine, with hydraulic cylinders inside of them. The guiding posts protect the hydraulic cylinders from external interference. The hydraulic cylinders are what is used to apply pressure to the car, with a crusher hood to spread the pressure evenly and crush the entirety of the car. A heavy-duty lowboy trailer is attached to the bottom of the mobile car crusher and can be transported only using a semi-trailer truck. Due to the increase in car production, scrap metal became high in demand, so the mobile car crusher was made to increase efficiency of gathering scrap metal. Lifespans of cars were also decreasing, so the number of cars being sent to large centralized car crushing facilities rose. Consequently, facilities needed to outsource to mobile car crushers so they could keep up with the increased volume of automobiles.
Car crushers in popular culture.
Car crushers have been popular in films as devices of murder or humour. They have appeared in such well known films as "Goldfinger" (destroying a Lincoln Continental with a body inside), "Cleopatra Jones", "National Lampoon's Vacation", "I'll Never Forget What's'isname", "Kick-Ass", "Superman III", "Gone in 60 Seconds, Pulp Fiction", "Strul, Mickey One," and many others.
They have also appeared in several television shows including "Mathnet's "The Case of the Great Car Robbery"". Joe Howard's character, George Frankly hid in a to-be-stolen car, and the other characters thought he was still in the car after it was flattened by the crusher.
A car crusher was used to dispose of Walt and Jesse's RV containing a mobile meth lab in season three of "Breaking Bad". 
A car crusher appeared in the junkyard scene of the Kushner-Locke/Disney film "The Brave Little Toaster".
A car crusher appeared in the San Francisco junkyard also Known as: Wrecking yard in the scene so when Sasha stops a junkyard car crusher from crushing the one Charlie is stuck in in the episode "Miss Guidance." 
A car crusher also appears in the video games "Grand Theft Auto 2" where it generates power-ups depending on car model and is also used in an assassination mission. It also appears in "Grand Theft Auto III", "" and "Mafia II" where the player can make money from stealing cars and taking them to the crusher.
A car crusher also featured in "". Jack is seen tied to the steering wheel of his red Porsche Carrera 911, on a crusher in a junkyard, before Janella Salvador/Habib Diator's death. On the ground, Marcus Blackwell and a mobster are watching. He is about to be crushed to death, but he wakes up and manages to untie himself and escape the crusher in the last second. He sneaks out and steals an NFS Edition Audi RS4, barely escaping the junkyard alive. Soon, he is chased by multiple Porsche Cayennes, but Jack escapes.
Manong generation

The manong generation were the first generation of Filipino immigrants to arrive, en masse, to the United States. They formed some of the first Little Manila communities in the United States, and they played a pivotal role in the farmworker movement. The term manong comes from the Ilocano word for "elder brother," while "manang" means "elder sister."
History.
In 1898, the United States entered a roughly fifty year period of colonial control in the Philippines. The Spanish American War (April-August 1898) ended Spanish colonial rule in the region, and the Philippines were ceded to the US in the Treaty of Paris. This was followed by the Philippine-American War (1899-1902), in which Filipino independence fighters, led by Emilio Aguinaldo, fought against American forces. The war was brutal, and total of 200,000 Filipino civilians died. Meanwhile, the US government, under William Howard Taft, launched a pacification campaign to win over support from Filipino elites, in 1900. This ultimately helped contribute to the defeat of the Filipino independence forces, and the war officially ended in 1902.
Following the U.S. annexation of the Philippines, Filipinos began to emigrate to the United States. In 1903, the first documented group of Filipinos emigrated to the United States. The majority of Filipino immigrants were young, single males, who came to work in agricultural jobs in California and Hawaii. Many of the immigrants worked in farms and tanneries during the growing season. Some also worked in factories. The agricultural and factory work tended to be extremely physically demanding, with harsh conditions and low pay. During the agricultural off season, the manong often worked in cities and towns, such as San Francisco, in primarily service industry and domestic roles, such as cooks, waiters, hotel bellhops, hotel "elevator boys," cleaners, chauffeurs, and house servants.
Due to anti-miscegenation laws and immigration restrictions, such as the Immigration Act of 1924, it was difficult for many of the manong generation to find partners and start families. For this reason, many chose to create communities, such as Manilatown, San Francisco, where they lived in the same neighborhood and patronized Filipino restaurants, pool halls, and community spaces. They also formed Filipino community organizations, such as Gran Oriente Filipino Masonic and Caballeros de Dimas-Alang. It was common for the manong generation to live in low-cost, single room occupancy hotels, such as the International Hotel, when they were in cities. Many of the manong lived their entire lives as single men. 
In 1934, Filipino emigration closed down due to the passing of the Tydings-McDuffie Act. Furthermore, the act changed the status of the manong from US citizens to aliens.
The manong generation participated in the labor and farmworker rights movement. For example, Filipino workers took part in the Delano grape strike in Delano, California, and some of the earliest meetings of the strike took place at the Filipino Hall.
In 1965, Filipino immigration to the United States rose again, due to the Immigration and Nationality Act, which removed national origin quotas. This marked the end of the manong generation, as a new generation of Filipino emigrants were able to move to the United States and form families, without the previous legal restrictions.