The Working of Steel - Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel

Project Gutenberg's The Working of Steel, by Fred H. Colvin and A. Juthe This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel Author: Fred H. Colvin A. Juthe Release Date: January 4, 2007 [EBook #20282] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WORKING OF STEEL *** Produced by Robert J. Hall THE WORKING OF STEEL ANNEALING, HEAT TREATING AND HARDENING OF CARBON AND ALLOY STEEL BY FRED H. COLVIN Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Franklin Institute; Editor of the American Machinist, Author of "Machine Shop Arithmetic," "Machine Shop Calculations," "American Machinists' Hand Book." AND K. A. JUTHE, M.E. Chief Engineer, American Metallurgical Corp. Member American Society Mechanical Engineers, American Society Testing Materials, Heat Treatment Association, Etc. SECOND EDITION THIRD IMPRESSION McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, Inc. NEW YORK: 370 SEVENTH AVENUE LONDON: 6 & 8 BOUVERIE ST., E. C. 4 Page v PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION Advantage has been taken of a reprinting to revise, extensively, the portions of the book relating to the modern science of metallography.