The testing of cast iron

✍ Scribed by Richard Moldenke

• Book ID: 104116281
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1905
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 928 KB
• Volume: 159
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(05)90001-x

✦ Synopsis

ABsTnACT:--Within the past decade or less radical changes have been introduced Into foundry" practice. Scientific methods have replaced rule-of-thumb methods, with correspondingly great advantages, in respect of economy in operation and certainty in quality of product. The present paper gives a concise summary of modern practice.--TgE EDITOR.] But few of the materials of construction have received as much attention in recent years as cast iron; and indeed it was high time that this study was taken up, for in no one branch of the great iron industry was there so much need of light.

It goes without saying that America began with this work at an early stage, got substantial results at the very start, and VOL. CLIX.