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THE outstanding features of this valuable book are its most useful tables of the costs, both of plants and working expenses, which, as the authors point out, are approximate, being subject to the market fluctuations of material and labour. The first fifty pages of the book deal with the various materials used in steel manufacture, opening with a disconcerting table of the world's output of steel ingots. In 1910 the United States of America made about 26,000,000 tons, Germany 14,000,000, and the United Kingdom only 6,000,000 tons. The authors point out that Germany became easily the second steel-producing country of the world owing to the introduction of the basic process, a method worked out by British metallurgists. The authors, however, do not sufficiently emphasise the fact that Great Britain now holds her position in the steel world on the quality, and not upon the quantity, of her output. The materials dealt with by the authors in their opening section also include fuels, refractory materials, fluxes, and ferro-alloys.
Liquid Steel, its Manufacture and Cost.
By David Carnegie, assisted by Sidney G. Gladwin. Pp. xxv + 520 + x plates. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913.) Price 25s. net.
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ARNOLD, J. Liquid Steel, its Manufacture and Cost . Nature 92, 681 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092681a0
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