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The man who made a diamond.

A young chemist who refused to accept no and build the first man made diamond against all odds.

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Stainless Steel 304

Stainless Steel 304

I love a heavy pen, my hand just wants to write fast and so that extra weight helps me slow down. Steel is three times as dense as aluminum, so the same pen that weighs 16 grams in aluminum weighs...

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Gel Ink

Gel Ink

The story of how gel ink was invented a 1970s quest by Japanese chemists at Sakura to create ink that behaves like ketchup: solid at rest, liquid in motion. The unexpected answer came from a food additive in a trade magazine.

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MagSafe

MagSafe

Inside the noble. note is a ring of eighteen N52 neodymium magnets, engineered to work seamlessly with MagSafe. Designed by someone who worked with Apple's magnetic sensing systems, this is a notebook built to stay with you.

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Discovery of Stainless Steel

Discovery of Stainless Steel

In 1913, a self-taught metallurgist named Harry Brearley discovered a steel that acid couldn't corrode and changed the world forever. This is the story of stainless steel, and the quiet lineage that runs through every noble. pen.

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What titanium feels like in your hand.

What titanium feels like in your hand.

    At Apple, there are rooms stacked with sheets and blocks of metal: aluminum, steel, titanium. When I designed parts, I would visit that room, pick the metals up one by one, and bend them a little, just to...

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The Ballpoint Pen

The Ballpoint Pen

  In 1930s Budapest, a journalist named László Bíró spent his days around printing presses. Something bothered him. The ink that printed the newspaper dried almost instantly, but the ink in his fountain pen smudged, leaked, and dried out. He...

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Whats the difference between Aluminum 6K & 7K?

Whats the difference between Aluminum 6K & 7K?

We machined from 6061 aluminum and anodized to protect it. It still scratched. The problem was not the ceramic skin, it was the soft metal underneath. So we changed the metal. Here is how the note ended up in 7075 aircraft aluminum, in deep black and in natural.

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A Brief History of Aluminum

A Brief History of Aluminum

For most of history, no one had ever seen aluminum. Surprisingly, it’s the most common metal in the Earth's crust. It’s never found in its pure form in nature. It sits locked inside other minerals, and for thousands of years...

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