Excerpt from On a New Method of Planning Researches and of Representing to the Eye the Results of Combination of Three or More Elements in Varying Proportions
I. The writer has lately been called upon to conduct, in the mechanical laboratory of the Stevens Institute Of Technology, among other researches, a series of investigations of the mechan ical properties of the more important alloys of the useful metals. The most extended and important of these investigations was made at the request of a Committee of the Board appointed by the President of the United States, by direction of Congress, to determine by test, the values, for purposes of construction, of iron, steel, and other useful metals and their combinations. This committee on the metallic alloys was directed to report upon the characteristics of alloys and the laws of combination....