Report of the United States Board appointed to test iron, steel and other metals.
Contributors: Laidley, Theodore Thaddeus Sobieski, 1822-1886.; Beardslee, L. A. 1836-1903.; Blair, Andrew Alexander, 1848-1932.; Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903.
Publisher: Govt. Print. Off.
Published: 1878
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
Subjects: Metals -- Testing; Strength of materials
Notes: "List of authorities on metallic compounds": p. 494-508.
The 2d ed. of this report forms v. 1 of "Report of the United States Board appointed to test iron, steel and other metals. In two volumes ... Washington, 1881.
Continued by the reports of the tests of metals ... of the U.S. Ordnance Dept.
Table of contents: title: Report of T.T.S. Laidley, president of the board, June 8, 1878.; title: Report of the committees on chain-cables, malleable iron, reheating and rerolling wrought iron, giving the results of experiments ... and a comparison of chemical causes with physical results. Ed. by L.A. Beardslee. 1878.; title: Methods used in the analysis of iron and steel, copper, and the alloys of copper, zinc, and tin. By Andrew A. Blair, chemist to the board. 1879.; title: Report on a preliminary investigation of the properties of the copper-tin alloys, made under the direction of the Committee on metallic alloys ... Robert H. Thurston, chairman, in the Mechanical laboratory of the Stevens institute of technology. Appendix: Selected papers on metallic alloys. 1879.