Stories by Fred P. Peters

Developed Originally by the Aircraft Industry to Improve Design Flexibility, Speed Production, and Lower Die Cost for Short-Run Work, the Use of Zinc Alloy Dies for Sheet-Metal Forming has Established Itself as Permanent Tooling and is Invading Other Fields as Well

Improvement of Alloys and Coatings to Combat the Ravages of Corrosion is One of Today's Most Hopeful Industrial Trends, Involving Both Metals and Chemicals. Industrial and Consumer Products Last Longer, Look Better, and Make Everyone Concerned Happier

Agonizingly Slow Was Man's Early Development of the Use of Metals. But During the Last 100 Years, and Especially the Last 50 Years, Alloys Have Changed the Whole Picture of Metallurgy. Progress has been Breathtaking and Today Points the Way to the Unfolding of The Alloy Age

The Railroads are Planning Now to Utilize Ihe Far.Reaching Advances Made by Metals During the War in Higher Speed, Lighter Weight Rolling Stock lor Both Passenger and Freight With this Equipment They Will Meet Peace Time Competition of the Airplane, Truck, and Bus

Continuing Development of Metals and Alloys is Giving the Mechanical Engineer New Tools With Which to Work. What Metallurgy is Doing Now Will Have a Direct Effect on the Progress That Will Be Made in the Future. New Materials Mean Better Machines and Prime Movers

Outstanding War-Time Research-in-Metals Development is the Sharing of Data and Efforts by Manufacturers. The Inevitable Result is Better Materials and Methods for Peace-Time Products. These Will be Converted into Applications of Importance to Industry and the Public Alike

Wartime Advances in the Heat Treatment of Munition Steel Not Only Assure Higher Quality Steel Parts at Lower Cost for Peace-Time Products, but Will be Responsible for Widespread Changes in the Design and Performance of Lighter or More Powerful Engines and Machines

Intense Heat (Above 4500 degrees, Fahrenheit) is Generated by Reaction of Granular Metals When Correctly Ignited. The Heat Alone Can be Applied 10 Many Uses, or the Resulting Metallic Mass Can be Used for Construction or Repair Purposes. Major Trends are Bow in View

Assuming an Increasingly Prominent Position in the Metal Industry, this Process Offers Advantages of Economy in Metal and Machining Cost. While its Forte is in the Pipe and Tubing Fields, it can be Applied to the Production of Shapes Other than Cylindrical

Oxy-Aceiylene Flames, Once Thought to Have Extremely Limited Uses, are Branching Out as Versatile Tools in the Metal-Working Industry. They are Being Used to Cut Threads, to Work the Hardest Steels, to Correct War page, for Surface Hardening, and in a Number of Other Applications

The War Has Framed the Futures of the Nonferrous Metals With a Number of Provocative Question Marks. How Will Aluminum, Magnesium, Copper, Zinc, Lead, and Other Important Metals Fare Individually When Peace-Time Competition Really Gets Tough? Some of the Answers are Clear Now

A Number of Relatively Simple and Inexpensive Machines Have Been Perfected in which Molten Metal is Poured into One End and Continuous Lengths of Billets, Sheet, or Strip Emerge from The Other End. Practically All Aluminum, Magnesium, and Copper Alloys are Now Cast in this Manner, and Experiments Currently Under Way with Steel Show Great Promise

No One Surveying Ihe Potentialities in New Alloys and Sleels should Forget Those Old Standbys Like Lead That Have Entered New Fields and Permanently Improved Their Application-Positions Generally. Here Are Some of Lead's Recent Advances and a Hint of its Post-War Prospects

In Materials Engineering the Choice of Metal-Form or Fabricating Method is often as Important as Selecting the Metal to be Used. Process-Competition in the Small-parts Field is Especially Intense and Will Become More So in the Not Far Distant Future

Once Valued at $20,000 an Ounce, Indium Now Sells for $7.50. It's Peculiar Properties Open Wide Fields of Use in High-Speed Bearings, Solders, Jewelry, and as a Hardening Element in Non-Ferrous Alloys. Not on the List of Critical Metals

War Needs Have Intensified the Application of Modern Science and Engineering in Foundry Practice. How Castings of All Types Have Better Properties, Can Be More Efficiently Manufactured, and are in the Best Competitive Position in Their History

Heat Treatment Has a New and Highly Important Partner in the Cold-Treatment of Metals. Sub-Zero Temperatures are Now Used in Treating and Storing Aluminum Rivets, Shrink-Fitting Mating Paris, Seasoning Steel Gages, and Elsewhere. New Equipment Has Been Developed

Peculiarly Fascinating is the Group of Alloys that Melt at Hot-Water Temperatures. Such Alloys are Now Wholly Engaged in War Work, Doing Jobs that Will Surprise Many and which Forecast and Extended Post-War Utility

Once Employed Chiefly for Accurate Manufacture of Small Metal Jewelry and Denial Paris. The "Lost-Wax" Casting Process Has Been Modernized and Adapted to War Production. It Now Looms as an Important Precision Method for the Post-War Production of Small Metal Parts

As a Result of Production and Conservation Requirements, New Technical Knowledge has been Acquired on the Use of Pressed Metals in Jobs that Formerly Have Been Done by Other Methods. Time and Materials are Saved Without Sacrifice

The Irresistible Technical Force of Silver's Wartime Development As an Industrial Raw Material Has Crashed into an Immovable Political Wall. Fall Utilization of this Metal's Post War Industrial Potentialities Can Come Only With Public Enlightenment on Both Phases

The Story of the Conversion of That Popular Glamour Metal, Chromium, to an Essential Machine-Shop Material for the Production Front-Some of its Unsuspected Properties and New Uses, its Conservation Aspects, and its Future Place Among Industrial Materials