Abstract
THE practical importance of the high-speed steels in the engineering industry, coupled with their interest from the metallographic point of view, renders any account of these materials of wide appeal. English readers should perhaps be warned that, so far as the manufacture is concerned, the treatment of this applies specifically to American practice, which for many reasons would not be followed in its entirety by producers in Great Britain. It is of interest, for example, that the authors do not even mention the use of the induction furnace as a melting appliance for such alloys. Further, except for special purposes, smaller ingots would be cast here than apparently are usual in America. These smaller ingots are less subject to serious heterogeneity than larger masses would be, but of necessity result in a considerable reduction in the amount of work which can be put upon them.
High Speed Steel.
By A. Grossmann Edgar C. Bain. Pp. ix +178. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1931.) 17s. 6d. net.
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T., F. High Speed Steel . Nature 129, 529 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129529a0
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