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Technician preparing ball bearings for use in lubricant testing equipment. Extensive research is conducted to select the best lubricant for each operation. improvement of existing facilities. For example, the combination 160-inch and 210-inch wide plate mill now under construction in the Chicago area will incorporate electronic and other controls developed through research. When completed, this mill will produce wider plates of more uniform thickness than any now available throughout the world. In 1960 a new high-speed six-stand 52-inch cold reduction mill was authorized for the Tennessee Coal & Iron Division. This mill will have a speed approximately three times greater than that of the mills it replaces and will produce the thinner and wider steels for tin plate of the highest quality that are now in demand. To accelerate development of even more efficient processes and techniques, the Electromechanical Engineering Laboratory was opened at the Research Center in May of 19600 Diversified products and markets Today's tailor-made steels allow the engineer and the designer greater freedom of imagination and frequent opportunity to apply entirely new principles of design and construction. Carbon steels, the "bread and butter" of the steel industry, have been improved and developed so that regular grades are now used for many specifications that formerly required alloy steels. Steel's customers benefit from the new and improved products that stem from research. Improved axles and transmission shafts for use in automotive, earth moving and farm implement equipment can now be made from carbon steels, instead of more expensive alloys previously required. Quality steel bars, from which sparkplug shells are produced, permit the customer to form the shell by a cold extrusion process using only two-thirds of the steel formerly required when such shells \yere machined. Today's steel line pipe, because of its greater strength and larger diameter, enables our customers by using greater pressure to transmit 60 per cent more gas than was possible only a decade ago with the same tonnage of pipe. Among the new products introduced by U. S. Steel in 1960 was steel which can be enameled directly with a single coat, for economical use by industries making household appliances and other porcelain-enameled products. The American Steel & Wire Division introduced a higher-strength telephone wire which will reduce the cost of installing telephone lines; and the National Tube Division announced a new, stronger tubing joint, called "buttress thread," which offers major advantages for the oil industry in its attempts to attain greater well depths. A revolution in tin plate manufacture has been wrought over the past twenty-five years. Individually coated small sheets, known as hot-dipped plate, have been replaced with coils of electrolytically coated steel strip almost four miles long. This product is of higher quality and uses about one-fourth of the tin previously needed for the hot-dipped plate. In 1960 a new thinner tin plate was introduced commercially under the trademark FERROLITE. From 100 pounds of FERROLITE, customers are producing up to 1,400 six-ounce citrus juice cans compared with just over 1,000 cans made from the same weight of conventional electrolytic tin plate. Research is continuing to make 10
Analog computor, right, in new Electromechanical building at the Research Center is used by scientist to simulate and analyze complex physical operating situations both rapidly and economically. Modern computors are used throughout U. S. Steel by research, engineering, production and accounting departments for the rapid solution of complex problems and for more efficient data handling. Continuous electroplating pilot line, right, at the Research Center is used for developing improved methods of depositing metallic coatings on steel. Knowledge gained from such research speeds up development of full-scale commercial methods for the production of new and improved products. Left, scientist takes measurements of a fine iron ore concentrate to predict, for example, the extent of shifting of concentrates when piled in ships' holds. Such research leads to safer and more efficient handling methods.
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