Steel in Everyday Life

Abstract

Steel has an impressive, over three thousand year history and has proven itself as a special material for industry, architecture, medicine, military technology, household and leisure industry, for environmental protection, energy technology and also for art. Steel is the material that everyone knows today and that accompanies everyone in life. And when products made of another material are used (e.g. made of plastic, wood, ceramic, light metal), they are usually processed with steel tools. Many examples illustrate this presence of steel in our lives. With the motto “Did you know …?” we want to raise interest in some particularly interesting steel applications with a focus on stainless steel and perhaps also achieve an “Aha” effect when reading (order without value!).