Steel watch worth 335,000 euros. This is from a magazine I read when flying from Pusan to Shanghai
Steel watch worth 335,000 euros. This is from a magazine I read when flying from Pusan to Shanghai
More expensive than an equivalent gold watch
This is where the watches were exhibited
Steel at Shanghai airport
Waiting for a bus to the domestic terminal for the flight from Shanghai to Wuhan
Professor Wu Kaiming waiting in the hotel
Joined by Rongshan Qin at the WuGang Hotel
The hotel was built originally to house German engineers who helped install equipment in the Wuhan Iron and Steel Company
This is a mural in the hotel
The Headquarters of the Wuhan Iron and Steel Company (WISCO)
Wuhan is a beautiful city with enormous lakes, the Yangtze river and a lot of green
It was a slightly rainy day but incredibly refreshing
This was a vegetarian restaurant in Wuhan
Professor Yanhong Wei by coincidence noticed that I was visiting Wuhan, and travelled 700 km to meet. She is a wonderful person
Yanhong is to the left of Harry
Large quantities of food
Professor Kathy Xie is from the International Office of WOSTECH (Wuhan University of Science and Technology)
We dressed up for the next day to give talks
Beautiful iron railings
Wuhan University of Science and Technology
Wuhan University of Science and Technology
Wuhan University of Science and Technology
Very nice campus
The President of the University, Professor Dr Ing Jianyi Kang is on Harry's right
Rongshan was made a Guest Professor
Bicycles
To the lecture room
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The University is about 110 years old
The bronze ornament was presented to mark that anniversary
Some of the audience
Some of the audience
Professor Wu Kaiming introduces the speaker
Lot of trees on the campus
With Professor Wu Kaiming's team
With Professor Wu Kaiming's team
It would no be possible to make steel without these ceramics
This is a ceramic plug to stop the flow of steel
Alumina and carbon
A visit to the State Key Ceramics Laboratory. This is a gate for pouring steel
Magnesium oxide and carbon
Many people know that steelmaking involves blowing gas from the bottom of the ladle, through molten steel
The lower part is a cross section. The gas enters through thin slits, then through the porous ceramic and bubbles into the steel
The oter side of the gate
Another composite ceramic
This is insulating ceramic
Different kind of insulating ceramic
Shows the development of earing in deep-drawn steel due to anisotropic properties
The anisotropy is a consequence of crystallographic texture
This furnace can operate at a pressure of ten atmospheres
Can be used, for example, to make high-nitrogen steel
A very clever rotating viscometer
.... to measure the properties of molten slag
This is where we had lunch
A facility within the University
The vegetarian option
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A relatively new museum built by the Wuhan Iron and Steel Company
These are steel carpets which extend to inside the building
Chairman Mao to celebrate the inauguration of WISCO
Chairman Mao explained that there are two things important in life, food, and steel
Model of WISCO
Ancient ironmaking
The body in white
The body in white
The body in white
Diameters of pipes made by WISCO
The body in white
Model of Birds Nest Olympic Stadium, partly made using WISCO steel
Auditorium made using steel
Suspension bridge
Component for the Three Gourges Dam
Liquified petroleum gas
At the WISCO Research Centre
Impressive building
The audience
Rongshan translated my talk
Rongshan then gave an electrifying lecture
The evening meal with the Vice President of the Wuhan University of Science and Technology
Harry was elected "Consulting Professor"
Rongshan was elected "Guest Professor"
The end of the beginning
