A press brake bending a sheet of steel A press brake is a machine tool for bending sheet and plate material, most commonly sheet metal. It forms predetermined bends by clamping the workpiece between a matching punch and die.
A hieroglyph, said the Rhetor, is an emblem of something not cognizable by the senses but which possesses qualities resembling those of the symbol. Pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but dared not speak.
[ See Maya Hieroglyphs .]. Egyptians also wrote in a cursive Egyptian script known as demotic. Hieroglyphic writing was deciphered by means of the Rosetta Stone on which the same information was repeated in Greek, hieroglyphs, and demotic writing.he Maya of Mesoamerica also wrote using hieroglyphs. Typically, hieroglyphs are inscribed (carved) pictures, but hieroglyphs were also written on papyrus, by the Egyptians, and bark, by the Maya.