Steel: A Manual for Steel-Users (Classic Reprint)

INTRODUCTION.
Tw'KXTY-SKVKN" years of active |>r:i' 't i< t> in the manufacture of steel brought the author in daily eoi.iaci w it h lacksmitlis. edge-too] maker-, die-makers, machine-huilders, and engineers were emit inuall v a.-king'questions whose answers involved >tudv and experiment.
During these vears the Bessemer and the open-hearth processes were developed from infanev to their present enormous stature; and the shadows id' these you tip- giants, ever menacing to the expensive and fragile crucible, kept one in a constant slate of watching, anxiety, and more study.
The literature of steel has grown with tlie art; its books are no longer to he counted on the lingers, they are to be weighed in tons.
Then why write another ?
Because there seems to be one little gap. Metallurgists and scientists have worked and are still working; th

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