G. W. H.

CONTENTS.


A FEW SECRETS OF THE
METALLURGIST
SIMPLY TOLD.


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INTRODUCTION [17]
CHAPTER I.

A Slight Test of the Imagination

[19]
CHAPTER II.

Comparison Between Conditions Which Exist in the Iron and Steel Family to Those Which Exist with More Familiar Elements

[22]
CHAPTER III.

An Experiment Performed with a Piece of Pearlitic Steel

[29]
CHAPTER IV.

High Speed Steel

[51]
CHAPTER V.

The General Effect of the More Important Elements in Tool Steels

[61]

Carbon Steels

[61]

Alloy Steels

[63]

High Speed Steels

[64]

Elements Which Occur in all Steels

[66]

Iron

[66]

Carbon

[67]

Manganese

[67]

Silicon

[68]

Phosphorus

[69]

Sulphur

[70]

Elements Which Have Become Especially Associated with Special Alloy Steels

[70]

Chromium

[70]

Tungsten

[72]

Molybdenum

[73]

Vanadium

[73]

Cobalt

[74]

Uranium, Titanium and Aluminum

[75]

Impurities

[75]

Heat Treatment

[76]

Hardening

[77]

Annealing

[79]

Tempering

[81]

Conclusion

[84]
CHAPTER VI.

What Tool Steel Is Doing Towards Winning the War

[85]
APPENDIX.

Analysis, Uses and Heat Treatment of Various Grades of Tool Steels

[92]

High Speed Steels

[93]

Die Steel for Hot Work

[94]

Special Alloy Steel

[95]

Semi-High Speed Steel

[96]

Simple Carbon Tool Steel

[97]

Non-Shrinking Oil Hardening Steel

[98]

Special Hot Work Alloy Steel

[99]

A FEW SECRETS OF THE
METALLURGIST
SIMPLY TOLD

INTRODUCTION.

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 little book was brought to my attention, under the encouraging title "Calculus Made Easy". As a matter of fact the little 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 encouraging, which I have always remembered, and which read something as follows:

"What one fool can accomplish, another fool can do, therefore take courage". This same thought applies to the subject which is now before us.