MIT basement stainless steel carbon control technology

Low-carbon stainless steel technology invented in the basement of Building 8 in the 1950s; John Chipman as the materials department head (1945–1962) who taught the world how to make reproducible-chemistry steel. The graduate-student-to-industry pipeline that lowered stainless steel costs.

Just to tell another story — I'd rather tell stories than go through my lecture notes, as you can tell. The technology to make very low-carbon steels, which is very important in the stainless steel industry — because too much carbon in some cases can destroy the corrosion resistance of stainless steel, and we'll talk about that later — was invented in the basement of Building 8 here, in the 1950s. Stainless steels were much more expensive than they are today.