home / study / engineering / mechanical engineering definitions / strength of materials. Strength of Materials, also referred to as Mechanics of Materials, looks at the behavior of materials when forces are applied to them.
De La Salle also pioneered programs for training lay teachers, Sunday classes for working young men, and one of the first institutions in France for delinquent youth. The Mission Carries On De La Salle died near Rouen on Good Friday, April 7, 1719, with 23 active communities and 100 Brothers continuing the mission he set forth. He was canonized a saint in 1900 and named the Patron Saint of Teachers in 1950.
John Moisant died of a broken neck in December 31, 1910 in an air crash while making a preparatory flight in his attempt to win the Michelin Cap. The accident took place in the current location of Luis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. The owners wanted to honor him, so they called the stock yards the Moisant Stock Yards, or MSY for short: certainly the best airport code story of all.