Stories by Fred P. Peters

While There Are Many Startlingly New and Revolutionary Developments in Metallurgical Sciences Just Over the Horizon, Some of the Most Important Advancements Will Consist Merely of Taking Fuller Advantage of Established Principles

Expanded Production of Stainless Steels, Coupled With the Development of New Types Having Improved Properties, is Bringing this Group of Metals to a Position of Ever Increasing Industrial Importance

When Raised to the Proper Temperature, Magnesium Develops Singular Workability. With it, a Fabricator is Able to Accomplish in One Draw What Would Require a Series of Operations With Many Other Metals

A Revolutionary Basis for Steel Specifications

Until Recently, All Attempts to Apply Conventional High-Temperature Cutting Techniques to the More Refractory Metals Resulted In Slow, Ragged Cuts. Now, However, With Newly Developed Methods, Many of These Metals Can Be Cleanly Cut on a Real Production Basis

Born As the Solution to a War Production Problem, the Precision Forging Process Makes Possible Mass-Production of MetalParts to Editor-in-Chief. Materials Methods Precise Dimensions with a Minimum of Machine-Finishing Required

Expanded Production Facilities, Lower Costs, Higher Strengths, and a Wide Range of New and Improved Alloys are Rapidly Opening New Markets. Uses Ranging from Door Keys to Railroad Cars Promise to Make Aluminum the Number One Nonferrous Metal of the Future

Survey of Trends in the Metals Field Indicates Wholesale Design Changes and a Complete Readjustment of the Thinking Which has Recently Dominated Procurement and Application of Industrial Metals

Complete Assemblies, Intricate Designs, Wire Articles, and a Host of Other Mechanical-Buffing Problems Can be Electrolytically Polished at Low Unit Cost. Particularly Practical is the Facility with Which This Method Adapts to Existing Electroplating-Production Equipment

Conventional Materials Tests and Methods Have a Place—But Only If the Information Gained is Truly Significant in the Light of Actual Product Usage. Simulated-Service Tests are Often Much More Truthful, and May Indicate the Application of Previously Unconsidered Materials

For Certain Products--Particularly Those Requiring Tubular Shapes and Closed Ends--Impact Extrusion in a Fast, Simply Tooled Means of Fabrication. Its Essentials are Only a Punch, Die, and Press-but Its Potentialities Range from Collapsible Tubes to Aircraft Parts

When Other Metals Reach the Economic Vanishing Point, the Seas Will Still Hold Unlimited Quantities of Magnesium. Today, this Remarkable Metal is Slowly Gaining in a Competitive Market. Its Strength, Machinability, and Lightness are Important Benefits

Closely Approaching a Sewing Machine for Metal, Resistance Welding has Multiple Advantages of Which High-Speed and Economy are Only Two. Spot Welds, Seam Welds, and Flash Welds are All Variants of the Resistance-Heat Theme. Keynotes are Versatility and Ease of Use

Well-Established as a Practical Engineering Material, Beryllium has Shed its Cloak of Mystery. Expensive and Hard-to-Work in the Pure State, It Alloys with Other Metals to Provide Properties Otherwise Unobtainable. Main Use--So Far--is in Beryllium-Copper Combinations

Electrodeposited Coatings of Speculum--an Alloy of Copper and Tin-- Give Good Tarnish and Wear Resistance. Speculum is Less Expensive to Apply than Silver or Chromium Plating and Cuts Labor Requirements Considerably. Future Applications Will Cover a Broad Range

Brand-New Alloys, and Some Old Standbys from Other Fields, are the Key Materials of Turbosuperchargers, Gas Turbines, and Jet Engines. Long Held as Top War Secrets, Their Compositions and the Methods by Which They were Formed, are Now Revealed to the Industrial World

A Basic Industrial Material, Steel is Assured a Continuance of Its Top Position by New Production Methods, by Specifications Tailored to Definite Industrial Needs, and by Its Inherently Adaptable Qualities. War-Time N.E. Steels have Proved Themselves and Are Here to Stay

Product Designers and Manufacturers Will Find New Raw Materials in the Extrusions that Are Now Available. Recent Advances in Extrusion Techniques have Opened this Materials-Forming Method to Many of the Stronger and Tougher Metals that Formerly Could Not be Extruded

Industry Has Available a Material which Can Be Put to Many Production Uses, When Means Are Found to Capitalize Fully on its Advantages and Overcome its Weaknesses. Already Boron Carbide is Being Used in Blast Nozzles, Gages, and Specialized Cutting Tools

Plating, Hot Dipping, Powder Metallurgy, Inserting, and Cladding, Offer Virtually New Materials With Desirable Properties for Many Specific Purposes. Plastics Plus Metals and a New Aluminum-Cast-to-Steel Process Open Many Fields of Application Hitherto Undeveloped

As a Scavenging Agent, This Lightest of All Metals Makes Possible Alloy Castings that are Stronger, Less Porous, and Higher in Electrical Conductivity. Because of its Extreme Chemical Activity it Purifies Alloys and Gives Them Much Finer Grain Structure

Despite Early Troubles, Welding Techniques Have Advanced to a Point Where they Will be Used in Many New Designs. Locked-up Welding Stresses, Usually Caused by Incorrect Procedures, Can Exert Explosive Rupturing Force. Now Such Stresses Can be Controlled

From Mirrors to Industrial Pumps, Various Combinations of Metals and Glass Have been Developed to Serve Specific Purposes and to Solve Difficult Problems. The Electrical and Chemical Industries Find Many Uses for Such Partnerships, Retaining the Best Features of Each

Modern Permanent Magnetic Alloys, Two to Ten Times More Powerful Than Former Materials, are Responsible for Compact, Efficient War-Time Energy-Converting Devices and Will be the Key Elements in Many Post-War Electrical and Electronic Products