Book Description

Excerpt from Principles of Metallography This little book has been written to meet the needs of those students of General Science or Engineering who do not specialize in Metallography but who will use it to a limited extent in connection with their professional work It is hoped that it will be of service, also, to the general reader as an introduction to an increasingly important branch of science and as an aid to the better understanding of the more highly specialized books. Greater emphasis has been laid on the applications of Metallography than on the physico-chemical principles involved but it is believed that the fundamental ideas on which metallography is based have not been neglected. In the appendix will be found a few of the tables most commonly used by the metallographist, a suggested outline of a brief laboratory course and a descriptive list of the more important books and journals dealing with the subject. Thanks are due to the authors of many of the standard books on metallography which have been freely used in the preparation of this little volume and grateful acknowledgment is made for the use of a few drawings which have been copied with minor changes from other books. Special thanks are due to Messrs. Bauer and Deiss from whose book on "The Sampling and Chemical Analysis of Iron and Steel" most of the microphotographs of steel and iron have been taken. It is a pleasure to express my appreciation for the services of Professor L. F. Hamilton who has helped greatly by his kindly criticism of the proof. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.