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It’s a very peculiar feature of our language that we often take a single brand name or trademark and apply it to every similar product. Coke is accepted to mean almost any cola, a fabric...

When you’re discussing various grades of steel, the temptation is to think of the large, old time foundries with huge smelting pots full of yellow and white hot metal being poured into castings. In truth,...

As celebrated science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke stated, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. We’ve seen an incredible amount of technological advancement that has led to huge changes, whether it’s the Gutenberg press,...

For steel aficionados, tool steel is a familiar but spectacular marvel – a technological and scientific exercise that produces some of the most impressive steel grades available! If you’re not familiar with tool steel, as...

Things aren’t as bad as they used to be, but it does still feel like the television is overrun with programmes about antiques, furniture and upcycling. One programme that we discussed recently is about restoration...

Even if you know nothing about the sport of golf, you probably know that golfers use ‘clubs’ and not ‘bats’ and that some of these are called ‘irons’. At one point, golf clubs were made...

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...

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...

There’s an old gag about New York; one day a tourist stops a local in the street and asks “Excuse me, how do I get to Carnegie Hall?” and the quick-fire response is “With a...