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...Stalin derives from stal (steel). And last week a group of engineers at Baku, Russia, developers of a new superhard alloy, christened it Stalinite "to symbolize firmness and power...
Hiland Garfield Batcheller became president of Ludlum Steel Co. Steelman Batcheller left the sales department of Carnegie Steel in 1916 to become assistant to the president of Ludlum, was elected a vice president three years later. To all steelmen he is famed for his contributions to the development of alloy steels in the U. S. He has long been interested in the Krupp steel works of Germany, arranged for Ludlum to share in the U. S. production of two Krupp metals: nitralloy, a wear-resistant steel used chiefly in the automotive and airplane industries, and Strauss Metal, used for cutting...
Enterprise, costing more than $1,000,000, was designed by W. Starling Burgess, who is also an airplane engineer. With the wealth of the great Vanderbilt syndicate behind him, he worked on theories no one had had a chance to apply before. When he put in an aluminum alloy duralumin metal mast, painted white, sailors called it the "bean blower" and scornfully predicted that it would collapse in the first puff. It is made in two layers held together by 100,000 rivets. It is much lighter and stronger than wood. For firmness, it was stepped in a water-tight...
Immediate significance suggested by Metallurgist Schwarz: ''A proper alloy with aluminum, consisting of 50% to 70% beryllium, will make a structural material for airships and airplanes which, because of its lightness and strength, can be used in smaller cross-sections, thus reducing the weight of any given ship by about one-half...
Next problem for metallurgists is to develop a beryllium alloy which is not brittle. While most aluminum-beryllium alloys will stand tensile (pulling) stresses of around 70,000 Ib. per square inch, they will support only slight bending stresses. Thin sheets of a 70-30 beryllium-alu-minum alloy will break like stiff cardboard...