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Miracle Metal
Miracle Metal
"Brother, You asked for it." Francisco Domingo Carlos Undres DAnconia. Gaining profits in market, and trying to earn money may not be as easy as one wishes
for it to be. There's always competitions, and hard laws to follow. Henry Rearden also known as Hank, who owns a steel plant, but has created a special
kind of metal from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand had to struggle against things such as, greedy people, politicians, gossiping crowds, other businessmen,
and unreasonably shallow scientists, when he first created the new metal, which was called Rearden metal. Mr. Rearden's problem builds up, so he resolves
it, and continues with his business.
A new unique formula of some sort of metal is not an easy task. It took ten years for Rearden to make the Rearden metal formula, and it was very hard work,
which he invested a big sum on. When he had tried to put this alloy out in the market so as to sell it, no one wanted to purchase it. It was new, so no
one desired to be the first one who tried it. There was a bunch of gossip and controversy about it being rather unstable metal to use, when no one had
any proof of that. The scientists who studied it knew that it was the best metal they've seen in a while, but dared not pronounce it, because they didn't
want to be upsetting to the crowd. They wanted to make people happy, so they kept it silent. Politicians asked the press to print stories declaring how
unstable the metal was. WESLEY Mouch the person in charge of the nation's economics had tried to pass riddiculous laws to make this metal unsellable. orren
boyle, another steel plant owner, who was Rearden's competitor, had to prove how much better steel was to the new metal. James Taggart the president of
the Taggart Transcontinental railroad refused to repair his severely broken track with Rearden metal, because he didn't want to believe the metal was good,
and also he didn't want to be laughed at. So Rearden had no market for his metal, because everyone was scared of the new reality, and was scared to use
it. It was unused and unwanted, which disappointed him as he actually wanted a market for it. He expected for it to sell out well, but it did not. After
all, after spending ten years on this he naturally wanted it to be marketable. The problem was soon resolved by a highly intelligent woman, who knew what
she was doing.
Dagny Taggard james's younger sister was tired of waiting for Orren Boyle to deliver tracks which had been thirteen months late. Orren Boyle kept moving
the date of deliverance back, and kept on serving other companies, which he favored. Dagny had been clever enough to get in contact with Rearden, and ordering
steel, which was guaranteed to be on time. Since, Rearden was a fairly fair man, he did not play favorites. He had offered Dagny a better solution, and
that was to build the track out of steadier materials. This was Rearden metal. Dagny examined the formula, and approved of it. So she ordered a big load
of metal alloy to build the tracks. Everyone was saying bad things about the new rail and how it would collapse. James Taggart had thrown a fit when his
sister told him that they had new rail and it was going to be Rearden metal. Everyone was furiously teasing the metal, and running a mock of it all. After
thirteen months of hard labouring involving such things as both overseeing laying the tracks on Dagny's part, and mass producing the metal on Rearden's
part they had it done. In these thirteen months Taggart Transcontinental was the only customers for the metal. Inspite of that, Henry Rearden was glad
that he could sell his first specimens of it, and that he could actually start making the metal.
After they finished that, the time came where it was to be tested, and most of all, to prove everyone's hypothesis of it being incapable of sustaining incorrect.
Everyone was out of control the two days proceeding to the test. Almost everyone declared that they weren't going to be on the first train, because the
track was surely to collapse right away. Dagny had also built a bridge with the metal, and people claimed that it was going to break right away. Rearden
just ignored all this and he knew that it was not going to collapse. Dagny also knew that it was not going to collapse. To prove this wrong they both were
going to ride on the first train, the comet going to run on the new laine. So the day came, Dagny and Rearden went on the train. They went at a hundred
miles an hour and the tracks did not break. They speeded over the bridge and it remained standing rather steadily. They actually enjoyed the train ride,
and Henry Rearden was very proud of his success. When they reached the station everyone cheered, and they were the heros for a long while to many, but
still people wanted to play the wrong sorts of games. They declared the achievement being James Taggarts's work. In the end however, everyone started to
go for Rearden metal and it was becoming one of the most successful things on the market.
Author's note: If anyone has read Atlas Shrugged you will understand that the title is meant to be a joke. It makes fun of Floyd Feris's lame name for this
great invention.