THE NEW STEEL.

Northern Advocate, 18 August 1919, Page 4

THE NEW STEEL.

How to make highest grade steel from scrap iron at a. co»t of about ?d per lb. has been discovered, ai}d h<a.3 been seen made at a Long Inland labpratpry by a chemist named William Mills, who for many years work ed in two of the bigger i; steel plants in the United States, says the "Dispatch." It is claimed that tne new discovery, which enables the manufacture of steel without puddlinjr at less than a twentieth of present « qst, will entirely revolutionise the stee} industry.

Like so many other uiscpveriea, the new steel is the result of an accident. Mills had for a long- time been trying to make diamonds, but, after much experiment, he succeeded in producing only very small s,}«.cimens at a prohibitive cost.

One day, the inventor, emptying th.c retort used \n the dlaanond : experiments, found in the receptacle a piece of iron knife blade whi;h had broken off.

Instead of being a f'«-ce of scrap iron it had become steel of extraordinary quality Mills then began a series of experiments with soft iron, with the result that he identified the new alloy which had b«s«;i driven into the <metal under the terrific pressure inside the retort,

It is claimed that tin*, new steel is equal to anything- at present known for all kinds of high-speed tool work and also for making st-jel of the kind used for motor-cars, aeroplane parte razors, and similar purposes.

The Waipa County Cov-ncil, in dl*cussing- war memorial, favoured a new hospital wing , . . A meeting of delegates of various pablic bodies is being- arranged to rtlsc-is* the subject of memorials general!/. The chair man of the Raglan Gouqty Council is the convener of the jn«t;*ing shortly to be held in Hamilton.

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