Mellor, J. W. Crystallization of Iron and Steel: an Introduction to the Study of Metallography. London and New York, Longmans, Green & Co., 1905. 154 pp. 5s. $1.60.
Reprinted lectures giving an excellent popular account of the constitution and nature of cast iron and steel. Includes right and wrong methods of annealing, hardening and tempering steel, and their microscopic examination. The information is presented in a terse and attractive style. Any reader of a scientific turn will find profit in this book.
Sexton, A. Humboldt. Outline of the Metallurgy of Iron and Steel. Manchester, Scientific Publishing Co., 1902. 16s.
The best, because most recent of the good elementary text-books on iron and steel. It is behind the times in regard to American practice, but contains a great deal of important information, clearly expressed. Covers iron ores, their physics and chemistry, construction and working of the blast furnace, foundry practice, puddling, forging, the Bessemer, open hearth and crucible processes, special steels, the testing of steel and protection from corrosion. Its sketch of the structure and heat treatment or iron and steel is very incomplete.
Swank, James M. Short History of the Manufacture of Iron in all ages, particularly in the United States from 1585 to 1885. 2d edition. Philadelphia, American Iron and Steel Association, 1894. 428 pp. $5.00.
The best historical account of iron and steel manufacture, written in an interesting manner. So carefully systematized that the history of any branch of the subject may be studied independently.
Swank, James M. Directory of the Iron and Steel Works in the United States and Canada. Embracing a full description of the blast furnaces, rolling mills, steel works, tin plate and terne plate works, forges and bloomaries in the United States; also classified lists of the wire rod mills, structural mills, plate sheet and skelp mills, Bessemer steel works, open hearth steel works, and crucible steel works. 16th edition. Philadelphia, American Iron and Steel Association, 1904. $10.00.
A Supplement to this directory contains a classified list of leading consumers of iron and steel in the United States, corrected to January, 1903. 196 pp. $5.00.
The Penton Publishing Co., Cleveland, Ohio, publish a list of the iron foundries in the United States and Canada, mentioning plants not listed by Mr. Swank, 1906. $10.00.