Abstract
UP to the present time several books have been written which deal with electric steel-making furnaces from the point of view of their electric, mechanical, and thermal efficiency. Not one of them, however, describes with any completeness the operation of the furnace and the making of a heat of steel. It has been evident for some time that this was greatly needed, for although the men directly connected with the manufacture of special steels are thoroughly conversant with the electric process and its advantages and disadvantages, those in the steel industry outside of this field have had very little opportunity of becoming familiar with it. In the present volume the author has endeavoured, with much success, to fill this need by discussing thoroughly the manufacture of electric steel, starting with the raw materials and ending with the teeming of the ingots. After the heat is poured and the ingots stripped, the furnaceman's duties are ended. If he has delivered a first-class ingot to the rolling mill or the forge, this represents his part of the effort necessary to the manufacture of a satisfactory product.
The Manufacture of Electric Steel.
By Frank T. Sisco. Pp. x + 304. (London: McGraw - Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1924.) 15s.
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C., H. The Manufacture of Electric Steel. Nature 114, 150–151 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114150a0
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