THIS is the third volume of a valuable series of treatises on metallurgy, written by Associates of the Royal School of Mines, under the able editorship of Prof. Roberts-Austen. It occupies an ...

So strong are some of today’s steel alloys that four one-inch-square bars will easily support the weight of a 125-ton jet airliner. Yet even the best of these metals will crack and shatter if they are ...

WHAT are usually called electro-metallurgical processes of steel manufacture now constitute an applied science of considerable industrial importance. Strictly speaking, however, the processes are not ...

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