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IT is true, as Prof. Andrade points out in NATURE of December 30 (vol. no, p. 876), that I am “not altogether familiar with the work that has already been done on the subject”: indeed it is obvious. And after glancing through the 82 pages of bibliography at the end of Prof. E. C. Bingham's “Fluidity and Plasticity,” I feel certain that I shall remain in this state. Tresca's Memoirs, however, are very well known among engineers, and they have been quoted and digested by several writers of engineering text-books and papers, but it is doubtful if the practical use of cutting tools has been much influenced by Tresca's work, beautiful and interesting though it is.
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ROWELL, H. Action of Cutting Tools. Nature 111, 84 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111084b0
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