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EVIDENTLY based upon a course of lectures delivered at the Birmingham Municipal Technical School, this little book is primarily a text-book not of so highly advanced a character as the title might perhaps suggest. It is well up to date, and embodies the latest views on the subject expressed at recent meetings of the Iron and Steel Institute. The arrangement of the matter is very similar to that adopted in Bauerman's “Metallurgy of Iron” and in Greenwood's “Steel and Iron.” The 131 illustrations are admirable, and well adapted to indicate to the student or intelligent workman the principles described. The index is the least satisfactory part of the book. The names of several authors cited (Brinell, Brustlein, Carvès, Chênot, Eyermann, Hoffmann, Lürmann, Massicks and Crooke, Mukai, McWilliam and Pourcel) are incorrectly spelt, whilst several authors to whom reference is made in the text (Berthier, Chernoff, Ewing, Faraday, Galbraith, Hautefeuille, and Wingham) are omitted. Similar errors in proper names occur in the text. Sir Lowthian Bell, for example, is described as Sir Lothian (p. 135) and as Mr. Bell (p. 380), and no distinction is made between Mr. Edward Riley and Mr. James Riley. Despite these faults, the book may be cordially recommended to science teachers as one which is eminently suitable for metallurgical classes.
Steel and Iron for Advanced Students.
By Arthur H. Hiorns. Pp. xvi + 514. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1903.) Price 10s. 6d.
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Steel and Iron for Advanced Students . Nature 69, 54 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/069054a0
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