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8 Oct 2022: Rail moving points. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. The French high-speed rail authorities have mandated that moving points must be made from the carbide-free bainitic steel. Here I took some pictures at the Cambridge rail station to use in a book that I am

30 Aug 2022: Baking hot, bicycles, additive manufacturing, Russia, Malaysia, Queen Mary University of London. The pond in Comberton, completely barren with all water evaporated due to the heat wave and lack of rain. This is the Comberton pond in 2001 when we had

8 Oct 2022: X-ray diffraction equipment. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Desktop X-ray diffraction machines for teaching undergraduates the way diffraction data are collected. Everything is manual, for example, the manipulation of the Geiger counter as a function of

10 Sep 2022: Interpretation of the microstructure of steels. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. The purpose here is to help identify the microstructures in steel using simple techniques based on the atomic mechanisms by which phases grow from austenite. Apart from their

5 Dec 2022: Bearing failure mechanism. Information courtesy of Parvez Mannan. Parvez Mannan of the Noble Engineering Services, New South Wales in Australia, kindly agreed to make these images and associated information available. The bearing inner race has the

12 Jun 2022: Visit to Boston, Schmidt Science Fellows occasion. Harry visited Boston in the USA on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Schmidt Science Fellowships programme. The objective is toDuring the journey towards Heathrow Airport, spotted this

21 Aug 2022: Dreamachine and the Elisabeth Line. Professor Anil Seth of Sussex University, who has written the book "Being you" which was on the Times Best Selling list for weeks, gave Harry a ticket to visit the Dreamachine. Anil is an expert on consciousness

20 Sep 2022: Harry and Colin in New Orleans. Harry Bhadeshia and Colin Humphreys went to the International Metallographic Society's ASM meeting at New Orleans during September 2022. Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur, the "model of a modern materials scientist".

1 Oct 2022: Critical assessment: the strength of undeformed pearlite. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia† and A. R. Chintha. †Queen Mary University of LondonSchool of Engineering and Materials Science, London E1 4NS, U. K. Tata Steel LimitedResearch and Development