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Professor Dr. Bruno Buchmayer in his office at the University of Leoben |

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Special samples for formability tests |

The latest Gleeble machine |

The city of Leoben is quite spacious and beautiful. The University itself is about 3000 strong and the city has a population of just 25,000 |

The mushroom building |

The mushroom building |

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Nice buildings |

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This particular building was made in the 17th century |

A theatre |

Metallurgy rules |

This used to be a monastery, followed by a prison, and now a restaurant and shopping centre. |

A meeting of the Austrian Society for Metallurgy |

Award presentation cermonies and a nice dinner |

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The after-dinner speech was on the Big Bang, and how metals came about |

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The dark age of the Universe was 3000 years after the Big Bang, when there was only hydrogen and helium in abundance, so no stars to light the Universe. The heavier elements beyond lithium formed in the stars. The hot earth when it formed had most of its metals in the core, but heavy bombardment by meteors brought some of these to the surface. |

Harry's hotel |

The view from the hotel |

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The workshop begins |

A beautiful, sunny day |

Harald Leitner and the LEAP atom probe |

An Oxford Instruments atom probe |

A high-temperature pin-on-disc abrasive wear machine |

Wear tracks apparent on these samples |

Peter Schumacher and his wonderful casting facilities. Peter Did his Ph.D. in Cambridge Unviersity with Lindsay Greer |

X-ray tomography |

A rotating-bending fatigue testing machine |

A rotating-bending fatigue testing machine |

The Rittinger Institute where Professor Buchmayer organised the workshop |

An old iron-making furnace |

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Water wheel used to drive a forge |

Leoben and its surroundsing are breathtakingly beautiful |

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The turbulence created by placing logs in the lake introduces oxygen for the fish |

A quiet, serene place for utter relaxation |

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The iron mountain, where ore has been mined for centuries and still continues to be productive |

The iron mountain, where ore has been mined for centuries and still continues to be productive |

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The iron mountain |

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The iron mountain |

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This is where steel was made, starting about 1810. This is one of the locomotives which brought the ore from the iron mountain to this location |

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This is where the ore was preheated |

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We are now inside the blast furnace |

This is the stretcher which was used to carry injured workers |

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This is the balcony designed to allow the workers to grab some fresh air |

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Water wheel |

The water wheel which drives the bellows |

These are bellows driven by the water wheel, to feed the tuyeres |

Here the furnce was tapped |

.. to form a layer of iron on the ground, which was then broken into bits and sent for forging |

Another set of bellows |

An anvil |

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A modern, Voest Alpine blast furnace |

Blast furnace |

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