Wentworth
Institute of Technology
The history of metals in America /
"The History of Metals in America chronicles the development of metals as both an industrial activity and a science. Progress involving structural metals made possible the air, land, sea, and space travel of today, skyscrapers reaching over 100 stories high, and many other engineering accomplis...
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| Language: | English |
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Materials Park, OH :
ASM International,
[2018]
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Note to Readers; CRS Preface; About the Author; Chapter One; The Discovery of Metals; Chapter Two; Iron in America- 1645 to 1870; Ironmaking Ppreads to More Colonies; Canal Building in Pennsylvania; Anthracite Coal Replaces Charcoal in Ironmaking; Ironmaking Pioneer John Fritz; Ironmaking Expands for the Railroads; Chapter Three; The Age of Steel-1870 to 1900; Experimental Work Begins on "Air Blowing" to Make Steel; Bessemer Process Enters Production; Bessemer Steel Becomes an Industry; Andrew Carnegie-The Immigrant; Carnegie Enters the Iron and Steelmaking Industry.
- Captain Billy Jones Joins Carnegie SteelCarnegie Steel Expands; The Great Strike of 1892 at Homestead; New Steel Markets Open; Andrew Carnegie Sells His Steel Empire; Chapter Four; Metallography-The New Science of Metals; Early Studies of the Internal Structure of Metal; X-Ray Diffraction; The Discovery of Precipitation Hardening; Research on the Mechanism of Age Hardening; Chapter Five; The History of Engineering Alloy Steels; Chromium Alloy Steels; Nickel Alloy Steels; Nickel-Chromium Alloy Steels; Automotive Demand for Alloy Steels; Development of Specifications for Alloy Steels.
- An Organization for Heat TreatersResearch on the Hardening of Steel; The Transformation of Austenite; The Solution to Hardenability Testing; The Tempering of As-Quenched Martensite; Chapter Six; The Toolmakers; The Age of Making Steel; Crucible Melting to Make Steel; New Alloy for Tool Steels; Research on High-Speed Steel; Advanced Research on High-Speed Steel; Molybdenum as a Substitute for Tungsten; Cleveland Twist Drill Company is First Adopter of Molybdenum High-Speed Steel; MIT Research on High-Speed Tool Steels; Research at the Union Carbide and Carbon Laboratories.
- Advanced Work in SwedenChapter Seven; Stainless Steel; The Discovery of Stainless Steel; Patents; Applications; The 1930s and 1940s; Development of New Alloys; The Argon Oxygen Decarburization Process; New Uses; Chapter Eight; Aluminum-The Light Metal; The Invention; Charles Martin Hall; A Pilot Plant for Making Aluminum; The Pilot Plant; A New Production Plant; The Move to Niagara Falls, New York; Early Aluminum Applications; Raw Materials; World War I; Ongoing Research; Alloy Development; Aluminum for World War II; Aerospace Applications for Aluminum Alloys; Recent New Alloys; Chapter Nine.
- Titanium-A New Metal for the Aerospace AgeTitanium Made at General Electric Corporation; Invention of a Process for Making Titanium; Studies of Properties; Sponge Production; Research Progress; The Titanium Metallurgical Laboratory; Chapter Ten; Pioneers in Metals Research; Henry Marion Howe; Albert Sauveur; Isaiah (Zay) Jeffries; Paul Dyer Merica; Edgar C. Bain; Samuel Leslie Hoyt; Francis L. VerSnyder; Chapter Eleven; The Integrated Steel Industry-1901 to 1959; The United States Steel Corporation; Bethlehem Steel Corporation; Little Steel Companies; Labor; Chapter Twelve.