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THIS is a difficult book to review so as adequately to represent the nature of its contents to the “technical students, metallurgists, engineers,” and others for whom it is intended. The somewhat florid style of the introduction, “Machinery ponderous and powerful or nimbly delicate and deft …” would lead one to expect a kind of poetic phantasy woven to give joy to the general reader, and the expectation is supported by the last sentence, about iron being the Master Metal because it has so many good qualities in well-balanced proportion. Really it is quite human, however, in that it has many wicked ways also, well known to the aforesaid engineers.
The Principles and Practice of Iron and Steel Manufacture.
By Walter Macfarlane. Pp. xi + 266; 96 figures. (London: Longmans, Green and Co.) Price 3s. 6d. net.
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The Principles and Practice of Iron and Steel Manufacture . Nature 74, 197 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074197a0
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