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Title: The Working of Steel
Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel

Author: Fred H. Colvin
A. Juthe

Release Date: January 4, 2007 [EBook #20282]

Language: English

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Produced by Robert J. Hall

THE

WORKING OF STEEL

ANNEALING, HEAT TREATING

AND

HARDENING OF CARBON AND ALLOY STEEL

BY

FRED H. COLVIN

Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Franklin Institute;
Editor of the _American Machinist_, Author of "_Machine Shop
Arithmetic_," "_Machine Shop Calculations_," "_American Machinists'
Hand Book_."

AND

K. A. JUTHE, M.E.

Chief Engineer, American Metallurgical Corp. Member American Society
Mechanical Engineers, American Society Testing Materials, Heat
Treatment Association, Etc.

SECOND EDITION

THIRD IMPRESSION

McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, Inc.

NEW YORK: 370 SEVENTH AVENUE

LONDON: 6 & 8 BOUVERIE ST., E. C. 4

PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION

Advantage has been taken of a reprinting to revise, extensively,
the portions of the book relating to the modern science of
metallography. Considerable of the matter relating to the influence
of chemical composition upon the properties of alloy steels has
been rewritten. Furthermore, opportunity has been taken to include
some brief notes on methods of physical testing--whereby the
metallurgist judges of the excellence of his metal in advance of
its actual performance in service.

NEW YORK, N. Y.,

_August, 1922._

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION

The ever increasing uses of steel in all industries and the necessity
of securing the best results with the material used, make a knowledge
of the proper working of steel more important than ever before.
For it is not alone the quality of the steel itself or the alloys
used in its composition, but the proper working or treatment of
the steel which determines whether or not the best possible use
has been made of it.

With this in mind, the authors have drawn, not only from their
own experience but f