AIM OF INVENTORS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 20

AIM OF INVENTORS

Rustless Iron

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Very little metallic iron existed in the world until man learned how to produce it.-. There were some meteoric lumps which lasted for a certain number of years before they rusted away. They had come blazing brilliantly into our atmosphere from the reaches of interplanetary space, their iron hearts burning away to iron scale, except in the few cases where the meteoric fragments were large enough to reach the earth in spite of the burning off of their surface as they plunged through our atmosphere.

borne: scientists believe the central core, of tho earth is a great mass of iron. But metallic ore was rare, indeed, at tho earth's surface until men learned how to smelt the. iron ore which is so common iv practically - all parts of tho world.

• Now we produce vast quantities of iron aiid steel in assorted shapes, sizes, and qualities, pins and steel rails, socalled "tin" cans and "tin" roofs, wire, battleships, pens, hammers, automotive engines, knives, piping and tubing, frying pans,and fences.

. We now make rustless steel for tools and for special purposes in the arts and sciences. But the time1 will surely come when iron, even for the commonest purposes, will be made rustless!' Millions will be saved in the coat of painting alone, for rustless iron-needs" no paint to protect it. Wire fences will last almost forever, and when tleir usefulness is ended they will go to the junk pilo to be remelted into new useful forms on^o more. Who:, practically all iron is rnado. rustless a, large part of the world's production will come from the junkman's-pile and less from the ores.