The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-07

100000 to $4,000 pounds per
square inch.
This explains why engineers at
stach so much Importance to stain
less steels and why the world is
moving from the Age of Steel into
the Age of Stainless Steels.
A N incident in milk price war
in a southern city illustrates
the strength of stainless steel.
Somebody put charge of dyna-
mite in the rack at the rear end
of milk truck.
The explosion blew out the rear
tires, smashed a supporting cross
beam, ripped the aluminium and
cork covering from the tank and
shattered the windows in the cab
at the front of the truck.
The explosion made bulge in
the tank of stainless steel but
failed to crack the thin shell of
steel or to burst open it's welded
seams. The tank was full of milk
at the time and not drop leaked
out.
Henry Ford was the first to in
troduce the use of stainless steel
on a large scale. That was in the
depression year of 1880, the year
when Henry Ford, leaving behind
his famed Model T, encased the
radiator of his new Model A in
glittering stainless steel
From that time on, the auto
motive industry has been one of
the largest users of stainless steel.
Not only on the outside of the
car, where it's resistance to rust is
important, is stainless steel used
today but also in the hidden parts
of the car where its strength and
resistance to heat are important.
Valves, piston rings, pump shafts,
manifold heat control units, bolts
and nuts in vital spots are made
of stainless steel today.
II LIKEWISE in aviation, stainless
- steel is finding it's place in the
construction of the plane and it's
engines.
Stainless steel also helps get
the gasoline for your automobile
or airplane. In the oil fields it
is being used in the equipment
that cracks the heavy oils into
gasoline.
The tubes of the cracking stills
must stand the corrosive action of
chemicals and heat. Four to IL
weeks used to be the average life
of these tubes. But the tubes OF
stainless steel, put into operation
five years ago, are still as good as
new. So today the oil industry is
using thousands of tons of stain
less steel in its equipment
The superior strength of stain
less steel means that the same
strength can be obtained with less
material than when older steels
were used. That is why stainless
steel is so important to the trans
portation industry - to the rail-
roads, the automotive industry,
the airplane, the ship at sea.
Among those to see at an early
date the Importance of stainless
steel was the United States Navy.
Stainless steel meant ships better
able to resist corrosion, lighter
ships, ships with stronger armor.
Experts of the United States
Navy went into the mills TO work
hand-in-hand with the metal
lurgiStS.
TODAY the Navy Uses stainless
l. steel in more than 100 ways
for LIGHTHOUSES and lattice work
masts, for fuel tanks on Subma-
rineS and cruisers, for gu.i mounts,
rivets, cooking utensils and re-
irigerators.
Many of the new Diesel electric
high-speed, streamlined railroad
trains have bodies of stainless
steel. Among them are the Bur-
lington's famous trains, the
Zephyrs Another is the Flying
Yankee which goes between Bos-
ton and Bangor, Me.
The decorative possibilities of
stainless steel, combined with it's
resistance to corrosion, have made
it appeal to architects. The gleam-
ing spire of the Chrysler Build
ing tower in New York is STAIN
less steel.
So is the Plaza Hotel bar in New
York. Radio City makes i'm
mense use of stainless steel, as
do other buildings for doors, store
fronts, lobby trimming, elevators
and the like.
You can have kitchen sink
or a cocktail shaker of stainless
steel if you wish. It is entering
the home as we'll as industry.
Tomorrow-TailOred Steels.