Faraday and his Metallurgical Researches: with Special Reference to their Bearing on the Development of Alloy Steels Faraday and his Metallurgical Researches: with Special Reference to their Bearing on the Development of Alloy Steels Faraday and his Metallurgical Researches: with Special Reference to their Bearing on the Development of Alloy Steels

Abstract

THE two papers on Faraday's metallurgical researches presented last year by Sir Robert Hadfield to the Royal Society and the British Association respectively but whetted one's appetite for more. In the volume under review the full meal is provided. In essence it is divided into two fairly distinct portions, one of which is concerned with the man himself, the conditions under which he became what he ultimately was, and the people with whom he was brought into contact. To many of the latter, through their influence upon his work and outlook, real, if indirect, credit for Faraday's own achievements is due. Great care and industry have clearly been devoted to this section of the work, with so much success that readers who neither know, nor possibly even care, about Faraday's metallurgical work will come to know a really great man.

Faraday and his Metallurgical Researches: with Special Reference to their Bearing on the Development of Alloy Steels.

By Sir Robert A. Hadfield, Bt. Pp. xx + 329 + 58 plates. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1931.) 21s. net.