Volume 50
Containing the Papers and Discussions of the Pittsburgh Meeting, October, 1914 and Papers and Discussions of the New York Meeting, February, 1914, Relating to Iron and Steel

Title Page

Preface

Contents

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS

MEETING	DATE
Pittsburgh Meeting	October, 1914

PAPERS:

NEW YORK MEETING

TITLE	AUTHOR
Data Pertaining to Gas Cleaning at the Duquesne Blast Furnaces (with Discussion)	A. N. Diehl
Notes on the Utilization of Coke-Oven and Blast-Furnace Gas for Power Purposes (with Discussion)	Heinrich J. Freyn
Notes on Blast-Furnace Operation with a Turbo Blower (with Discussion)	S. G. Valentine
Turbo Blowers for Blast-Furnace Blowing (with Discussion)	Richard H. Rice
The Iron Industry in Brazil (with Discussion)	E. C. Harder
Pig Steel from Ore in the Electric Furnace (with Discussion)	Robert M. Keeney
Valuation of Iron Mines (Finlay, Trans., xlv, 282)	(Discussion by E. E. White)
The Reserves of Iron Ore for the United States	John Birkinbine
The Need of Uniform Methods of Sampling Lake Superior Iron Ore (with Discussion)	C. B. Murray
Notes on Conservation of Lake Superior Iron Ores (with Discussion)	C. K. Leith
Notes on an Iron-Ore Deposit near Hong-Kong, China	C. M. Weld
The Plant of the Duplex Process for Making Steel (with Discussion)	J. K. Furst
Sound Ingots	Sir Robert Hadfield
Rolled Steel Roll Shells	James C. H. Ferguson
Finishing Temperatures and Properties of Rails (with Discussion)	George K. Burgess, J. J. Crowe, H. S. Rawdon, and R. G. Waltenberg
Manganese-Steel Rails (with Discussion)	Sir Robert Hadfield
The American Steel-Rail Situation	Robert W. Hunt
The Influence on Quality of Cast Iron Exerted by Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Some Other Elements (with Discussion)	J. E. Johnson, Jr.
The Surface Decarbonization of Tool Steel (with Discussion)	J. V. Emmons
The Heat Treatment of Steel Castings (with Discussion)	C. D. Young, O. D. A Pease, and C. H. Strand
Manganese Steel, with Especial Reference to the Relation of Physical Properties to Microstructure and Critical Ranges (with Discussion)	W. S. Potter
Research with Regard to the Non-Magnetic and Magnetic Conditions of Manganese Steel (with Discussion)	Prof. B. Hopkinson and Sir Robert Hadfield
Manganese Steel and the Allotropic Theory (with Discussion)	Albert Sauveur
Notes on Some Heating and Cooling Curves of Professor Carpenter’s Electrolytic Iron (with Discussion)	Albert Sauveur
Notes on the Plastic Deformation of Steel During Overstrain (with Discussion)	Henry M. Howe and Arthur G. Levy

PITTSBURGH MEETING October, 1914

TITLE	AUTHOR
Investigations of Coal-Dust Explosions Caused by Gas or Dust (with Discussion)	Howard N. Eavenson
Coal-Dust Explosion Investigations	J. Taffanel
Coal-Mine Explosions Caused by Gas or Dust (with Discussion)	Howard N. Eavenson
The Appraisal of Coal Lands for Taxation (with Discussion)	H. M. Chance
The Pittsburgh Coal Field in Western Pennsylvania	H. A. Kuhn
The Book Cliffs Coal Field, Utah	Robert S. Lewis
An Aerial Tramway for Mining Cliff Coal	Arthur E. Gibson
Tin and Coal Deposits of the Fu Chuan District, China (with Discussion)	M. B. Yung
Steep Pitch Mining of Thick Coal Veins	W. G. Whildin
Shot Firing in Coal Mines by Electric Circuit from Surface (with Discussion)	George S. Rice and H. H. Clark
A New Safety Detonating Fuse (with Discussion)	Harrison Souder
The Safety Movement in the Lake Superior Iron Region	Edwin Higgins
Gasoline Locomotives in Relation to the Health of Miners (with Discussion)	O. P. Hood
A Test of Centrifugal Motor-Driven Pumps (with Discussion)	S. S. Rumsey and W. F. Schwedes
Refining Petroleum by Liquefied Sulphur Dioxide (with Discussion)	L. Edeleanu
The Capillary Concentration of Gas and Oil (with Discussion)	C. W. Washburne
The Oil Fields of Mexico (with Discussion)	Esequiel Ordoñes
Gas and Oil Wells through Coal Seams	(A Discussion)
Chlorides in Oil-Field Waters (Trans., xlviii, 687 to 694)	C. W. Washburne
The Occurrence, Preparation, and Use of Magnesite (with Discussion)	L.C. Morganroth
The Origin, Mining and Preparation of Phosphate Rock	E. H. Sellards
Tennessee Phosphate Practice	James A. Barr
Salt Making by Solar Evaporation (with Discussion)	W. C. Phalen
Asbestos in Southern Quebec (with Discussion)	John A. Dresser
Asbestos Deposits of Georgia (with Discussion)	Oliver B. Hopkins
Quarrying Shale by the Tunnel System (with Discussion)	Dwight T. Farnham
Barytes as a Paint Pigment	H. A. Gardner and G. B. Heckel

INDEX

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Index