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Steel

Alloy made by combining iron and other elements

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Images featuring Steel

4 images from works
  • Iron: various machines involved in the Bessemer process of steel manufacture. Engraving c.1861.
  • Steel saws, scythes, and other edged implements in steel. Engraving by W.H. Lizars.
  • Chemistry: a piece of steel wire burning in oxygen inside a glass jar. Mezzotint, 1809.
  • Bilston, England: men making steel in the melting shop of the British Steel steelworks. Aquatint by H.N. Eccleston, 1979.

Works from the collections

12 works

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    An essay on the mystery of tempering steel : wherein the effects of that operation are fully considered / Extracted from the works of the celebrated Mons. Reaumur ; By J. Savigny.

    René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur | Date: 1771
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    Corus PLC : research and development : report, proceedings of the Committee and minutes of evidence / Science and Technology Committee.

    Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Science and Technology | Date: 2001
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    Responses from the Government and from Corus PLC to the Science and Technology Committee's second report on Corus PLC - research and development.

    | Date: 2001
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    Experiments and observations to investigate the nature of a kind of steel, manufactured at Bombay, and there called wootz: with remarks on the properties and composition of the different states of iron / By George Pearson.

    George Pearson | Date: [1795]
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    Steel saws, scythes, and other edged implements in steel. Engraving by W.H. Lizars.

    | Reference: 30848i
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