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THE autumn meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute was held in the Town Hall, Barrow-in-Furness, on September 1, 2, and 3, with Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the president, in the chair, and was very largely attended. After an eloquent address of welcome from the Mayor, Mr. Carnegie delivered a short presidential address, in which he traced the progress made in the metallurgy of iron and steel since the Institute's last visit to Barrow twenty-nine years ago. After various business announcements had been made by the secretary, Mr. Bennett H. Brough, the reading and discussion of the thirteen papers on the programme began. The first read was that by Mr. R. A. Hadfield on the alloys of iron and tungsten. This formed a monograph of sixty-eight closely printed pages. It contains historical details regarding the ores of tungsten, the metal and its alloys, and a large amount of physical data. It concludes with a carefully compiled bibliography of the subject, showing that a large amount of attention has been devoted to studies of this interesting metal and its employment in the manufacture of steel. Osmond, by his cooling curves, has brought out several peculiar points in the thermal behaviour of this steel, and Barrett has discovered that tungsten affects the conductivity of iron less than any other added element. Though tungsten-iron alloys will have an important future, there is no doubt that their use is not likely to be on the same large scale as some of the other special steels now produced. In the discussion some interesting details were added by Mr. F. W. Harbord and by Mr. J. E. Stead.
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Iron and Steel Institute . Nature 68, 462–463 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068462a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/068462a0