AMAZING STEEL MAKING.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 547, 5 March 1913, Page 2

AMAZING STEEL MAKING.

+ NEW PROCESS.

Tt is rumoured that Messrs. Vickers Son and Maxim are negotiating for the British rights of a newly discovered process of converting finished iron into steel. As an instance of what can be done by this process, the inventor can take a heavy chain and give one end of it a thin coating of steel, thin as an eggshell. To the other end he can give a coat of half an inch in thickness, while the centre will be converted into solid steel. .He can also work up a fine razor blade oftt of iron, shaping and grinding it to the required form, and after this is done he puts the blade through his steeling process and converts it into the hardest kind. Steel blades produced in this way are, it is claimed, equal in every respect to the linest ShefHeld makes.

"I firmly believe," says the innovator, "our process will revolutionise the whole steel business. Big furnace methods will he entirely superseded. I have tested the method in every possible way, and noted European experts have done the same thing, and always with the most gratifying results. The method is quite simple'. Iron is simply treated with a chemical composition, being subjected to heat at the same time. "The chemical fumes have a peculiar property, converting iron into steel and tempering it to wonderful hardness.

"The best steel is tempered tc sixty-three points. We can quite easily temper our steel to 243 points. This is almost unbelievable, I admit, yet it is quite true."