The literary digest . The metal wouldbe hard, but brittle. This is whyforging is superior to castingwhere both hardness and tensilestrength are needed, and it is whyforgings are now, to a very greatextent, supplanting castings. Now, even in forging, there isa right and a wrong way of ham-mering. If the forging is ignorantly orcarelessly made by a single greatblow of a drop hammer, the outsidefibres of the steel are more com-pressed than those on the inside. If, on the other hand, theforging is made by a series ofcarefully calculated and nicelyadjusted blows (such as only longexperience can acc
The literary digest . The metal wouldbe hard, but brittle. This is whyforging is superior to castingwhere both hardness and tensilestrength are needed, and it is whyforgings are now, to a very greatextent, supplanting castings. Now, even in forging, there isa right and a wrong way of ham-mering. If the forging is ignorantly orcarelessly made by a single greatblow of a drop hammer, the outsidefibres of the steel are more com-pressed than those on the inside. If, on the other hand, theforging is made by a series ofcarefully calculated and nicelyadjusted blows (such as only longexperience can accomplish), thefibres are more evenly compressedthroughout, and a finer grainand greater strength result. By an intensive and exact know-ledge of steel and its methods oftreatment; by the ideal, best ex-pressed by C. E. Billings when hesaid, into every forging goes ourentire reputation*; by half a cen-tury of steady progress since CivilWar days, this company hasreached its present position inthe estimation of the Triangle B forgings have made many a greatindustry possible by holding in leash forceswhich zvould otherwise have remained beyondthe scope of humanly zvrought strength.
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