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Making the Cut – with Plasma!

As long as we’ve known about metals, we’ve been creating tools that allow us to deal with them; we’ve put a huge amount of effort into heating, refining, shaping, grinding, cutting and attaching metals together...


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Steel Is Beautiful, Whether Big or Small!

There’s no denying that we’re a little in awe of just how many different grades of steel can be put to different uses. Just as the dawn of the smartphone age saw everybody saying “There’s...


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Mark Firth

Mark Firth – Making a Success of Armaments

Yorkshire has long been a county linked with iron, steel and metallurgy in the public consciousness, starting with the boom period in the middle of the 19th Century. The quality of the products that came out...


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Some Weighty Talk With Metals!

If you ask somebody “What is a kilogram?” you might get a series of different answers. Some may be literal and say “One thousand grams”, while others, dependent on their age, might say “About 2.2...


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Hot Metal – How Does It Change?

We know that lots of things undergo changes when they’re heated and metals are no exception. There are a number of common items that actually rely on this very fact, such as thermometers – the...


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A Look At The Vickers Family

There are a number of famous names in the steel industry around Yorkshire, but what’s interesting is the number of different disciplines that they cover. There are famous scientists, metallurgists, cutlers, structural engineers and even...


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