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Some Aspects of Hardenable Alloy Steels

1956 Howe Memorial Lecturer

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When untimely death overtook the eminent metallurgist who had been chosen to deliver this year’s Howe Memorial Lecture, he was in the midst of gathering his material and developing new data in the thorough and competent manner in which he handled all such assignments. Out of regard and affection for Herbert French, and because we were his chief assistants with respect to this item of his activities, we have endeavored, to the best of our ability, to complete Mr. French’s discourse along the lines which we believe he intended. We are sure that, had he been spared, you would be presented with a much more profound and better integrated discussion, but under the circumstances we beg your indulgence for any failure to meet the standards of excellence which always characterized Herbert James French’s metallurgical writings and lectures.

We are presenting Mr. French’s discourse as we have envisioned it.— Oscar O. Miller and John W. Sands.

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H. J. FRENCH, Member AIME, deceased, was Vice President, International Nickel Co. Inc., New York.

After the death of Mr. French in August 1955, two of his associates in the International Nickel Co., O. O. MILLER, Member AIME, Head, Steel Section, Research Laboratory, Bayonne, N. J., and J. W. SANDS, Member AIME, Development and Research Div., New York, prepared the lecture from his data. TP 4265C. Manuscript, Apr. 11, 1956. New York Meeting, February 1956.

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French, H.J. Some Aspects of Hardenable Alloy Steels. JOM 8, 770–782 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03377766

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