810 Pages
by
CRC Press
810 Pages
by
CRC Press
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In this book two distinguished metallurgists have traced the role of metallurgical technology in the creation of the scientific revolution and the formation of the Royal Society.
Foreword, The Royal Society, Acknowledgements, Acknowledgements for Illustrations, Chapter 1: Metals and the Origins of the Royal Society, Chapter 2: Metals and the Early Period of the Royal Society, Chapter 3: Chemistry, Metallurgy and Materials Processing, Chapter 4: Precious Metals - the Platinum Group, Chapter 5: Minting of Coinage, Chapter 6: Non-Ferrous Extraction Metallurgy, Chapter 7: Iron and Steel Production, Chapter 8: Metallurgy and the Electrical Age, Chapter 9: Engineers and Their Metallic Materials, Chapter 10: The Emergence of Physical Metallurg, Chapter 11: Physical and Chemical Properties of Metals and Alloys, Chapter 12: Advances in Techniques for the Study of Materials' Structures, Chapter 13: Fundamentals of Elastic and Plastic Deformation, Chapter 14: Metallurgical Challenges of Engineering Applications, Chapter 15: Processing for Engineering Applications, Chapter 16: Alloy Structure and Constitution, Chapter 17: Non-Metallic Materials and the Royal Society, Chapter 18: Metals and the Atomic Age, Chapter 19: The Royal Society and the Industrial Revolutions, Biographies of Fellows and Foreign Members, Appendix 1: Some Aspects of the History of Metallurgical Education of University Rank in Great Britain, Relating to Fellows of the Royal Society (Up to mid-20th century), Appendix 2: Royal Society Awards, Appendix 3: Bakerian Lectures, Appendix 4: Nobel Prize Winners (Fellows and Foreign Members referred to in the Biographies Section), Appendix 5: Fellows of the Royal Society - Presidents of British Institutes of Metallurgy and Materials, Appendix 6: Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society -Recipients of Premier Awards of British Institutes of Metallurgy and Materials, Appendix 7: Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society (referred to in the Biographies Section) Chronological List of Election Dates, Appendix 8: Bibliography, Name Index, Academic and Industrial Index, Subject Index
Biography
David Richard Frederick West, John Harris
