For the 7. SEC-Technology-Tour I invited the SEC members to Wetzlar on 24 Nov 15. As before, together with the retirees of the VAA in Hanau-Wolfgang. The programme included the modern architecture of the new Leica building, the world of Leica cameras and the role of fantasy literature in industrial innovation.

At Leica Camera AG, we experienced the legend of Leica with all our senses at the new company headquarters in Leitz Park. For Leica enthusiasts, interested parties and guests from all over the world, a fascinating adventure park has been created 40 minutes by car from Frankfurt am Main, offering exciting insights into the world of Leica. Photography takes centre stage here. Exclusive exhibitions, lectures and signing sessions by internationally renowned photographers make up the exclusive programme of events at the Leitz Park. Visitors were able to follow production and assembly in the new company building. An exhibition of historical cameras, lenses and sports optics products, a Leica Gallery, a Leica Store, a company restaurant and a café rounded off the programme.

The Fantastic Library Wetzlar manages and maintains the world's largest publicly accessible collection of fantastic literature with a book collection of over 260.000 titles from the fields of science fiction, fantasy, utopias, horror, fantasy, fairy tales, legends, myths, travel and adventure literature. The collection is unique in its completeness of modern speculative literature.
The head of the Fantastic Library, Thomas Le Blanc, gave us a lecture on the benefits of fantastic literature for industrial innovation (see Nachr. Chem. 2015, 63, 627). Afterwards, we were allowed to visit the Phatastic Library in two groups.

Wolfgang Gerhartz, July 2015