When you hear it said that “Modern steel is disposable by design”, your ears perk up, as you just caught the unmistakable sound of faux romanticism along with ‘lost ancient technology‘ vibes. Although ...

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THIS is the third volume of a valuable series of treatises on metallurgy, written by Associates of the Royal School of Mines, under the able editorship of Prof. Roberts-Austen. It occupies an ...

"Dedicated to Professor Radomír Pleiner." "Within this volume, several authors from both western and eastern Europe introduces in eighteen contributions recent and/or summarizing results of ...

CAST iron has a very limited literature in comparison with steel, and it is only lately that any considerable attention has been given to its scientific study, although isolated workers have attempted ...

A research team from the University of Freiburg has demonstrated, through a detailed analysis of the microstructure and ...

Copper smelters from 3,000 years ago may have experimented with materials just enough to launch the Iron Age. The Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age as the refining process of iron was discovered.

Hunter-gatherers who lived more than 2,000 years ago near the top of the world appear to have run ironworking operations as advanced as those of farming societies far to the south. Excavations in what ...