Category: Science - Chemistry/Biochemistry

A few secrets of the metallurgist simply told

When as a student at a Technical College of one of our great Universities, I came to the study of Differential and Integral Calculus, I remember that I was seized with a kind of mental paralysis at the thought of the great unknown that lay before me. Fortunately, however, a li...

Chapters

1. CHAPTER II.

2. CHAPTER III.

3. CHAPTER V.

4. CHAPTER VI.

When as a student at a Technical College of one of our great Universities, I came to the study of Differential and Integral Calculus, I remember that I was seized with a kind of...

5. volume did not attempt to take its readers through all the intricacies

of the entire subject, but it did succeed in giving a certain start on the long journey which has to be undergone by a student of the Calculus. Its opening sentence was encourag...

6. CHAPTER I.

We live in a world in which certain conditions of the atmosphere and the so-called elements surrounding our daily existence, are entirely familiar to us. From force of habit we...

7. CHAPTER II.

One of the first physical changes which we would discover would be that when we desired to “freeze” a “crucible” pailful of our iron water, we could do so much more easily if th...

8. CHAPTER III.

However, let us not trouble ourselves with too many definitions at one time, but instead amuse ourselves for a while by running through a little experiment with a piece of carbo...

9. CHAPTER IV.

After the processes of hardening and drawing our sample of simple carbon tool steel have become thoroughly mastered, it might seem that all which was desired had been accomplish...

10. CHAPTER V.

We know that all metals of engineering nature are crystalline in character, that is, the crystals form when the metal solidifies. If these crystals were free it would be easy to...

11. CHAPTER VI.

It hardly seems fitting that we should close these pages without giving our readers some little idea of just what the tool steel industry is doing for the successful conclusion...