Report of the committee on science and the arts

✍ Scribed by H. Pemberton Jr.; Luther L. Cheney; Nathan H. Edgerton; C.Hanford Henderson; Richard D. Baker; F.Lynwood Garrison

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1890
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 277 KB
• Volume: 130
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(90)90214-4

✦ Synopsis

TIlE FRANKLIN INSTFFUTE is not responsible for the statements and opini(ms advanced by contributors to the Journal. _ 'i'l~r PROI)UCT OF "lqU,; EUREKA TEMPERED COPPER COMPANY. JR@or[ of [/ze Cbnzmif/ee o;t 5c'ic,~tcc a;zd l/ze Arls.] [No. 1,49r.] HA I,L OF TIIE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE, PHu~a~)~.:i.pn~a, October I, ~89 o. The sub-committee appointed to examine and repor~ upon application No. E,49r, made by the Eureka Tempere~ Copper Company, of North East, Erie County, Pa., dated April 2~, i89 o, and supplemented by their letter of Augus~ 7, t89o, beg leave to report :

That in the applications, as above, the applicants claim to possess processes invented by Aimer Thomas and Luzerne Merket, of North East, Pa., in the first place, for cash il~g pure copper without alloys, so as to make castings sound and free from blow-holes ; )and, in the second place, for hardening copper (after casting)without destroying its fibre or impairing its usefulness for electrical or other purposes. They also claim that no alloys are added to the cop-