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THE author of this unconventional autobiography is known to many as the inventor of stainless cutlery steel, and to metallurgists as a practical steel maker, a trenchant critic at meetings of the Iron and Steel Institute, and as the writer of several excellent technical books. Those books contain the fruit of long experience in the melting and working of steel and in the conduct of laboratory research, expressed in language of great simplicity and directness, suggesting the hand of a master of English. They have nothing of the aridity of the ordinary text-book. It is therefore interesting to see how a boy, brought up in one of the dreariest parts of industrial Sheffield, came by his peculiar gifts.
Knotted String: Autobiography of a Steel-Maker
By Harry Brearley. Pp. ix + 198. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1941.) 10s. 6d. net.
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DESCH, C. Knotted String: Autobiography of a Steel-Maker. Nature 149, 397 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149397a0
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