The microscopic structure of iron and steel

✍ Scribed by F. Lynwood Garrison

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1887
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 744 KB
• Volume: 123
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(87)90234-1

✦ Synopsis

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN :--The subject which I am about to bring to your attention to-night, is one of the most interesting developments, which the science of metallurgy has ever made, and although the use of the microscope in the practical metallurgy of iron and steel is yet but in an experimental stage, it promises to increase our knowledge of the properties of metals to a degree that it would be difficult to approximate. Although the ultimate practical value of this subject has been much questioned, one thing is absolutely certain--that with the microscope, we can see vastly more of the structure of the metal than could be seen with the naked eye. We see many things, the existence of which we never before suspected, and, as in the case of the application of chemistry to this same branch of engineering, it is only required that the data so derived should be properly interpreted and applied,