Heat-Treatment of Steel: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Hardening, Tempering, Annealing and Casehardening of Various Kinds of Steel: Including High-speed, ... Furnaces and on Hardness Testing Kindle Edition

This book is in the public domain, as it was published in the early 1900's. Nevertheless, it is very interesting with a lot of insight into the process of heat -treating steel. Surprisingly, the process hasn't changed all that much, I guess the main difference being the extensive use today of different coatings,- TN, TAIN, and numerous others. It is also quite readable, with a particular emphasis on high speed steel, M2, which is something that has interested me for a long time.

not so applicable to today but interesting to hear what was cutting edge 100 years ago

Easy to read.

GREAT

more heat treating for industrial application.

originally published by Erik Oberg by The Industrial Press, 1914the copy i read was obtained from Goo-Gal (you know who) research, and freely off-loaded from the information super roadblock (pease excuse the goofy writing to avoid filtration on the am-a zone)old books like this, from the turn of the century and before, are full of valuable historical insights into the development of a given industrythe reader should be warned that the language used is sometimes old-fashioned, confounding as all tarnation, and may require difficult translation (not all archaic terms are well defined anywhere on the weber verse) or even informed guesswork to understandalso, procedures described in these older works are often of an industrial nature bearing little resemblance to any DIY situation, and are sometimes outdated or simply not true (ex. : talk to someone about "packing" steel in a forge with a hammer and report back to me about the results : a complete loss of credibility is my prediction)sometimes great for theory but the information should be viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism until it can be verified independently

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Nice and informative

Awsome and fast

Almost identical, except in size and print quality, to my original 1914 print. Excellent primer to explain the background and history of Heat Treating and how it was achieved before modern technology came to the fore. Clear and simple and explains the differences between Hardening, Tempering and Annealing as well as other techniques used on different alloys.