Ferrum: Good, durable, safe. Quality and Safety Requirements of Technology in History

Articles about: - early modern instruments for testing the quality and safety of black powder and gun barrels - control by experts? Legislation governing Schaffhausen blacksmiths in medieval and early modern times - quality management in science and industry using the example of ferrous metallurgy in Germany - optimizing operation, reducing risk: aspects of quality and safety in the development of the steam engine. - to create a replacement limb suitable for work - electricity and safety - environmental regulation and corporate offshoring in the aluminum sector - safety, guiding principles, practices: on the tension between resource conditions and technical change in wind energy utilization -dialoguing speed and new standards: the Concorde prototypes - the silver bullet, or how to kill the quality "beast" - books for the Iron Library: reflections on books donated to expand the library's collection - Johann Conrad Fischer: a biography - readings of a pioneer - Fischer's journals as testimonies of technical knowledge between craft and science.