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Iron at Scale: Coke Smelting, Puddling and the Boring Mill
Four milestones in metallurgy and machine tools without which the steam engine would have remained a curiosity, one of them driven by an environmental crisis.
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Every page in the KEVOS library tagged metallurgy. 6 pages.
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Materials for a Harder Duty: Stainless Steel, Light Alloys and Synthetic Polymers
Five materials milestones that each removed a constraint designers had treated as fixed: corrosion, weight, fibre supply, glazing cost and the stiffness penalty of mass.
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Materials That Built the Modern World: Steel, Plastics and Engineered Timber
How the Bessemer converter, the first synthetic polymers and engineered wood products replaced found material properties with specified, warranted ones.
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Spanning the Gap: The Iron Bridge, the Truss and the Suspension Chain
Three milestones in which metal replaces masonry as the primary structural material, and in which someone tests it before building with it.
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Steel Beyond Bessemer: Regenerative Heat, the Basic Process and Alloy Steels
Four milestones showing a field that acquired chemistry rather than physics, and in which the decisive advance came from a part-time experimenter working in a cellar.
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Metallurgy of Spring Steels
How spring steel is made — from ore, flux and coke through the blast furnace and basic-oxygen converter to killed ingots, billets, patented rod and cold-drawn wire — and what ea…
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