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.
Honorary degrees were awarded to Joseph Brown in 1770 and to John Brown in 1773. A number of the Brown family attended the University, among them Nicholas Brown 1786, for whom the college was named in 1804, and his brother, Moses Brown 1790, who died in 1791.