An Elementary Outline of Mechanical Processes

This book is intended as an elementary account of the several classes of processes employed in shaping materials of construction for various mechanical uses. A brief account of the properties of these materials and of the methods of producing them is also given. Effort has been made to present the subject matter in brief and elementary form, with sufficient detail to outline methods and principles clearly. It is intended to show completely, though briefly, the steps of metal manufacture from the ore to the finished product, so that the student may be enabled to classify all branches of metal manufacture, and may pursue intelligently such study as will give fuller information than is possible to include herein. Most of the subject matter is from notes taken by the writer when on engineering instruction, on shipyard inspection and other engineering duty and during recent visits to manufacturing plants where processes were observed through the courtesy of officials of those plants, and where valuable information was obtained which could not be obtained otherwise. These notes were in several instances checked and supplemented by information from various technical books and papers, particularly by reference to their reports of original investigations. A list of the books of great assistance in this work is as follows: I ron (T heM etallurgy of) Turner. Steel (T heM etallurgy of) Harbord and Hall. The Metallurgy of I ron andS teelS toughton. Chemistry of Materials of Engineering Sexton. Elementary Text Book of Metallurgy Sexton. Materials of Engineering Thurston. The Materials of Construction Johnson. Calcareous Cements Redgrave andS packman. Hawkins Mechanical Dictionary. Cyclopaedia of Mechanical Engineering. Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers.
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