 | Engineering - 1873 - 598 pages
...Institute, says : " Before considering the process and machinery, let us define the term steel. Steel is an alloy of iron which is cast while in a fluid state into a malleable ingot. Any radical nomenclature founded on chemical differences leads to endless mistake and confusion. If... | |
 | Alexander Lyman Holley - Bessemer process - 1873 - 94 pages
...manufacture. * Before considering the process and machinery, let us define the term " steel." Steel is an alloy of iron which is cast while in a fluid state into a malleable ingot. Any radical nomenclature founded on chemical differences leads to endless mistake and confusion. If... | |
 | James Stephen Jeans - Steel - 1880 - 962 pages
...and similarly affect any malleable alloy of iron." Hence, Holley is content to describe steel as " an alloy of iron, which is cast while in a fluid state into a malleable ingot," * and this definition has been supported by Professor Jordan,'!' and Hackney ; f while Barlow practically... | |
 | Glasgow naval and marine engin. exhib - Marine engineering - 1881 - 378 pages
...the general adoption of this proposal. Now, the definition is pretty generally accepted that steel is an alloy of iron which is cast while in a fluid state into a malleable ingot ; yet this does not cover some of the steels to which I shall have to refer. The history of steel is... | |
 | Glasgow naval and marine engin. exhib - Marine engineering - 1881 - 442 pages
...the general adoption of this proposal. Now, the definition is pretty generally accepted that steel is an alloy of iron which is cast while in a fluid state into a malleable ingot ; yet this does not cover some of tbe steels to which I shall have to refer. The history of steel is... | |
 | Augustine W. Wright - Street-railroads - 1887 - 228 pages
...'iron recarbonized.' " Alex. L. Holley, the father of the steel works of this country, said : " Steel is an alloy of iron which is cast while in a fluid state into a malleable ingot. Any radical nomenclature founded on chemical differences leads to endless mistake and confusion. If... | |
 | Henry Marion Howe - Iron - 1916 - 738 pages
...division, in his Revue tie ['Exposition de Paris, 1870, No. 4, p. 280. In 1872 Holley said: "Steel is an alloy of iron which is cast while in a fluid slate into a malleable ingot." Journ. Franklin Inst., 1872, vol. 94. Though it would profit little... | |
 | Finance - 1873 - 420 pages
...recent lecture before the Stevens Institute of Technology, Mr. AL Holley thus defines steel: "Steel is an alloy of iron which is cast while in a fluid state into a malleable ingot. Any radical nomenclature founded on chemical differences leads to endless mistake and confusion. If... | |
 | Wiebe E. Bijker, John Law - Science - 1994 - 356 pages
...not "readily described." Kicking off the debate, Holley articulated the fusion classification: "Steel is an alloy of iron which is cast while in a fluid state into a malleable ingot." By the fusion classification, if the metal had been completely melted—regardless of its carbon content—it... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1872 - 668 pages
...and manufacture. Before considering the process. and machinery, let us define the term "steel." Steel is an alloy of iron which is cast while in a fluid state into a malleable ingot. Any radical nomenclature founded on chemical differences leads to endless mistake and confusion. If... | |
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Steel is an alloy of iron which is cast while in a fluid state into a malleable ingot. Any radical nomenclature founded on chemical differences leads to endless mistake and confusion. If steel is defined as an alloy of iron containing carbon enough to... 