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The history of metals in America / Charles R. Simcoe ; edited by Frances Richards

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Materials Park, OH : ASM International, 2018Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:
  • 1627081461
  • 9781627081467
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 1627081453 | 9781627081450 | Erscheint auch als: The history of metals in America. Druck-Ausgabe Materials Park, Ohio : ASM International, 2018. xiii, 242 pagesDDC classification:
  • 669.0973
LOC classification:
  • TN623
Online resources: Summary: 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 LaboratoriesSummary: 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 NineSummary: 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 SteelsSummary: 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 IndustrySummary: 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 TwelvePPN: PPN: 1040007449Package identifier: Produktsigel: GBV-4-CommColl | ZDB-4-EBA | ZDB-4-NLEBK
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