Abstract
NEARLY a quarter of a century has elapsed since a revolution in metal-machining practice was caused by the invention of the so-called high-speed cutting tools by Messrs. Taylor and White, of the Bethlehem Steel Company, U.S.A. This discovery was not an isolated one but was simply the last of a series of connected discoveries leading to this particular result. To a large extent it was empirical and in advance of the metallurgical theories of the time. It gave rise to various researches designed to explain the remarkable properties of these steels. Most of these have thrown some light on the properties in question, but none of them can be said to have provided a complete explanation of all the phenomena observed. The paper, therefore, by Messrs. Marcus A. Grossmann and Edgar C. Bain βOn the Nature of High Speed Steel,β presented at the autumn meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute, is to be welcomed in that it constitutes a further attempt to place on a scientific foundation a comprehensive theory of the mode of action of these steels.
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C., H. High-Speed Tool Steel. Nature 114, 699 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114699a0
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