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Edward Busch, who for several years has been connected
with Tate Jones & Company, furnace manufacturers
of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been appointed district
manager of the Hevi-Duty Electric Company,
Milwaukee. Wis., for the sale of electric furnaces and
equipment in the ( >hio and Indiana territory, with
offices at 879 Arcade Building. Cleveland. Ohio.
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Herman I.. Barnes, Chicago, associated for several
years with Whitman i\ Barnes and the Sexton Mfg.
Company, has been made general manager of the
American Forge (\ Machine Company, Canton, Ohio,
and has assumed his duties there.
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\\ II. Clark has been appointed general stiperintendent
of the Lebanon Iron Company, Lebanon, Pa.,
succeeding John C. Brown, resigned.
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I). II. McAvov has been appointed manager of the
research department of the Hyatt Roller Bearing
Company, being succeeded as commercial manager by
W. E. Jones. A. II. Beggs succeeds W. O. Nettleton.
who has resigned as advertising manager.
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Dr. R. W. Woodward has resigned as chief metallurgist
of the Whitney Mfg. Company, Hartford,
Conn., manufacturer of chains and hand milling machines
to become associated with Stanley- P Rockwell
Company, consulting metallurgical engineers of
that city. The latter company is now placing on the
market an instrument for use in precise heat treatment
of steel, and Dr. Woodward will have charge of
this department as well as being available for general
consulting practice. Dr. Woodward was formerlychief
of the section of mechanical metallurgy at the
United States Bureau of Standards.
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J. \Y. Griffiths, recently connected with the Bethlehem
Steel Company- as superintendent of open
hearths, has established himself as a consultant with
companies experiencing difficulties in special steel
manufacture. His address is 1306 Twelfth Street,
X. W., Canton, Ohio. Mr. Griffiths has been in the
steel industry for 25 years, formerly having been with
the L'nited Alloy- Steel Corporation, Canton, Ohio,
and the Central Steel Company, Massillon, Ohio.
William C. Wetherill, widely known in engineering
and industrial circles and formerly associated with
the Link Belt Engineering Company, the Weatherill
Finished Castings Company and the Keystone Screw
Companv. has joined the staff of the Department of
Commerce as director of investigations into the utilization
of metals, the introduction of simplified practice
and the elimination of waste in the metalworking
industries.
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OBITUARIES
Silas J. Llewellyn, a prominent figure in the iron
and steel industry at Chicago, president of the Interstate
Iron & Steel Company, died at his home in
Evanston. 111.. September 3, after an illness of nearly
six months.
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Edward De Mille Campbell, professor at the University
of Michigan and prominent in the activities of
technical and engineering societies, died September
19 at his home in Ann Arbor.
October, 1925
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TRADE PUBLICATIONS
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Steel Hardening — A folder by the Stanley P.
Rockwell Company, Hartford, Conn., describes the
methods for determining the critical temperature of
steel being given hardening treatment to insure
quenching at the proper moment.
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Electric Drawing Furnace - - Leeds & Northrup
Companv, manufacturers of electrical measuring instruments,
Philadelphia, has issued a booklet explaining
correct methods of drawing steel to obtain best
qualities and describes its electric furnace for this purpose
and the method of using it.
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Pressure Indicator and Recorder — Republic Flow-
Meters Company, Chicago, has issued a circular illustrating
the use of its electrical level and pressure indicator
and recorder. It is an application of the principle
of the standard flow meter produced by this
company and may be used to record pressures at a
distance, to give better regulation.
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Electric Welding—American Electric Fusion Corporation,
2610 Diversey Avenue. Chicago, 111., has issued
a publication entitled "A. E. F. Welding Illustrated,"
containing an article on the principles of
electric spot, butt, and seam welding.
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Exhaust Fans — American Blower Company.
Detroit, Mich., issued Bulletin No. 3506 illustrating and
describing "ABC" steel plate exhaust fans, Type E.
A very complete set of tables compiled from tests made
in accordance with the provisions of the standard
code for exhaust fans is included.
Stainless Steel — American'Stainless Steel Company,
Commonwealth Building, Pittsburgh, Pa., issued
a publication entitled "Stainless In Industry,"
devoted to the possibilities of stainless iron and steel,
and pointing out the advantages of this material when
a combination of mechanical strength, ductiliy and resistance
to corrosion, tarnish effect at high temperatures,
erosion, or abrasion is required.
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Electric Welding — Lincoln Electric Company.
Cleveland, Ohio, issued an instruction manual entitled
"Lincoln 'Stable Arc' Wrelder." This book explains
the methods used for the installation and maintenance
of the Lincoln "Stable Arc" welding equipment in a
series of nine lessons in arc welding, covering also the
methods of procedure for standard operations. A
preface is provided, directing how the manual may be
studied to best advantage. This is followed by instructions
for uncrating new equipment, locating it
to best advantage, wiring, maintenance and general
methods. Then follow the nine lessons pertaining to
different phases of electric arc welding.
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Welding — Theory- and practice of electric welding
are treated in a bulletin by the American Electric
Fusion Corporation, Chicago, which strips the subject
of technical features, tells it simply and describes its
apparatus for obtaining the desired results in the shop.