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Rivets and buttons are engraved with her flowers and logo.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2023

Rivets that connect the plate and beams were feared to be permanently weakened when a vertical beam was yanked inward during the crash Dec. 15.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2022

Rivets for Coal Henry Ford continued to stay in the nation's headlines by doing nothing at all last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was the less familiar Second Rhapsody in Blue, written as a Rhapsody in Rivets, and there was An American in Paris.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rivets made in open dies are liable to have a fin on the shank, which prevents a close fit into the holes of the plates.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 by Various