It is still widely used today for springs, bearings, bushings, automobile transmission pilot bearings, and similar fittings, and is particularly common in the bearings of small electric motors. Phosphor bronze is particularly suited to precision-grade bearings and springs. Bronze is typically 60 percent copper and 40 percent tin.
The NAACP Image Awards is an award presented annually by the American National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding people of color in film, television, music and literature. Brown has won two awards from six nominations.
Tap each coloured country on the map above to see how Nobel Prizes have been awarded over the past 112 years. Countries coloured grey have never produced a Nobel winner. The United States, which has produced 323 award winners, and the United Kingdom, which has 113, are by far the most regular recipients of the prize. In third place is Germany, which has produced 87 Nobel winners, with the majority in physics, chemistry and medicine.