Excerpt from The Use of Steel for Constructive Purposes: Method of Working, Applying and Testing Plates Excellent pig for the production of cheap steel is obtainable in all parts of the country, and ferro-manganese, upon which important qualities of constructive steels depend, is now cheap enough to warrant its general use. In short, with every facility for making the products so largely needed here, and so largely used abroad-with the best steel works in the world, and working organizations in them which have increased product and decreased cost in a remarkable degree, we are devoting more concentrated action to schemes for preventing over production than we are to adapting grades and shapes of product to the various constructive uses, and to teaching artisans how to heat, shape and apply them. In view of this state of affairs, it seems to me that the dissemination among our steel makers and users, of the facts contained in M. Barba's little book, should be of great advantage, ist, to our engineers and machinists, by making more conspicuous the nature of steel and of the new and important art of working steel: 2d, to the managers and owners of large enterprises in construction and transportation, by revealing to them the fact that steel is such a tractable and valuable material; and 3d, to our steel makers, by showing them that a vast want exists for products which they can make, and what kind of steel and treatment of steel will enable them to take advantage of this existing want. It is to be regretted that M. Barba did not give us the analyses of the steels employed-not even their percentages of carbon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.