THIS is the third volume of a valuable series of treatises on metallurgy, written by Associates of the Royal School of Mines, under the able editorship of Prof. Roberts-Austen. It occupies an ...

Caltech scientists have developed a method to create metallic objects of a precisely specified shape and composition, giving them unprecedented control of the metallic mixtures, or alloys, they create ...

The earliest known production of steel was excavated from an archaeological site in Turkey and dates back over 4,000 years. Since that time, metallurgy has advanced by leaps and bounds, and we now ...

So strong are some of today’s steel alloys that four one-inch-square bars will easily support the weight of a 125-ton jet airliner. Yet even the best of these metals will crack and shatter if they are ...

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not ...

IT is not surprising that the fourth edition of this valuable and painstaking work should be called for. It is without doubt the best compilation of its kind in metallurgical literature. The ...