Over a period of thousands of years, humans learned to identify, extract, blend, and shape metals into tools, ornaments, and weapons. The ability of metals to alter the wealth, power, and culture of societies is so profound that the Bronze Age and the...

In Europe, more than any other part of the world, industrial manufacturing and technology has developed from metallurgy, the mining and smelting of metals. Advances in metallurgy have been at once the cause and effect of European technological...

Metallurgy is a domain of materials science that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their intermetallic compounds, and their compounds, which are called alloys. It is also the technology of metals: the way in which science...

Alexander the Great founded Alexandria to immortalize his name amid his quest to conquer the world _ but his was apparently not the first city on the famed site on Egypt's Mediterranean coast.A Smithsonian team has uncovered underwater evidence pointing to an urban settlement at...

Companies like U.S. Steel boomed during and after World War II. Their steel sustained the military and rebuilt continents.Today, vastly more high-tech planes and equipment usher in a new era for Haynes International HAYN.The company makes titanium and nickel alloys to customer's specifications, usually for...