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Papers - Research on Blast-furnace Slag (With Discussion)By Richard S. McCaffery
A Research on iron blast-furnace slags has been in progress since 1922 in the metallurgical department of the University of Wisconsin, supplemented by observations, tests and critical examination of o
Jan 1, 1932
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Papers - Seismic Methods - A New Geophone (With Discussion)By C. A. Heiland
The new geophone described herein was developed by Charles H. Hull, instrumentmaker of the Colorado School of Mines, and the writer. The first geophone was invented during the war for the purpose o
Jan 1, 1932
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The Comstock LodeThe finding of gold, in enriching quantity, along the streams that issued from the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada was the prelude not only to the birth of an organized mining industry in Calif
Jan 1, 1932
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Production - Domestic - Oil and Gas Development in South Arkansas, North Louisiana and Mississippi in 1931 (With Discussion)By H. K. Shearer
There is little of importance to be added to the production record of south Arkansas, north Louisiana and Mississippi as a result of developrnents during 1931. No discoveries of any probable commercia
Jan 1, 1932
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Development of Gun-feed Reverberatory Furnaces at Garfield Plant of American Smelting & Refining Co.By R. A. Wagstaff
THE method of charging a reverberatory furnace has changed many times since smelting was introduced in this country from the old smelters of Swansea, England. The cause of the latest change at the Gar
Jan 1, 1932
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Some Influences of Foreign Demand on the Domestic Oil SituationBy E. B. Swanson
FREQUENT reference has been made to the increased domestic gasoline demand recorded for 1931. This increase was in the neighborhood of 7,000,000 bbl. Although smaller relatively than that to which the
Jan 1, 1932
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Machinability of Free-cutting Brass RodBy Alan Morris
BRASS rod for use in automatic screw machines is one of the major products of the brass mills. A large tonnage is consumed each year in the manufacture of an endless variety of finished articles and p
Jan 1, 1932
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RI 3189 Falls Of Roof And Coal In The Book Cliffs And Wasatch Plateau Coal Fields Of UtahBy Herbert Tomlinson
The United States Bureau of Mines has engaged in a study of the conditions under which coal mine accidents, resulting in the loss of life, limb, or time to the injured person, occur from falls of roof
Jan 1, 1932
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Accepting Responsibility - Something Any Successful Engineer Must LearnBy W. H. Bassett
One of the difficulties for many young engineers is the acceptance of responsibility. Even though they start as assistants to older men, they hesitate to offer positive opinions. They often make repor
Jan 1, 1932
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Economics - Economics of Domestic MarketingBy Sidney A. Swensrud
About a year ago, I attempted in a general way to trace the origin and development of some of the marketing problems of the petroleum industry, and to describe certain trends which it then seemed poss
Jan 1, 1932
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Uniform Cost Accounting in the Crushed Stone IndustryBy William Hilliard
IN any manufacturing business, it is of vital importance that the management should know the exact cost of the units of production. Without such knowledge, a company can sell blindly in the open marke
Jan 1, 1932
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RI 3197 Composition Of The Fractions Of Primary And High-Temperature TarBy E. B. Kester
A study of the composition of the corresponding fractions of a primary and a high-temperature tar was undertaken to throw light on the net results of the pyrolysis of the primary products of coal deco
Jan 1, 1932
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Papers - Some Physical Characteristics of West Virginia Coals (With Discussion)By C. E. Lawall, C. T. Holland
When this study was started very little information was available regarding the physical characteristics of West Virginia coals. This was particularly true of friability and of crushing strengths of t
Jan 1, 1932
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Papers - Theoretical Studies - Mathematical Theory of Electrical Flow in Stratified Media with Horizontal, Homogeneous and Isotropic Layers (With Discussion)By D. O. Ehrenburg, R. J. Watson
During the earlier period of electrical prospecting, the search for orebodies was by far the most important application of this method of geophysical prospecting. In the past few years, however, incre
Jan 1, 1932
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Ears on Cupronickel CupsBy W. H. Bassett
IN their paper on the directional properties in cold-rolled and annealed commercial bronze,1 Phillips and Samans suggest that cupronickel, under distinctly different treatments, shows both "45° ears"
Jan 1, 1932
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RI 3171 Analytical Distillation Of Coal TarBy E. B. Kester
In the commercial evaluation of coal tars, a distillation analysis properly carried out is of considerable importance. Close attention must be given to this operation in order to obtain consistent res
Jan 1, 1932
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Some Notes on Filter Press Design and OperationAn efficient filtration plant can be designed only from an adequate knowledge of the filtration characteristics of the material to be handled; if these characteristics can be expressed in the form of
Jan 1, 1932
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Papers - General - Choice of Geophysical Methods in Prospecting for Oil Deposits (With Discussion)By E. DeGolyer
The only known direct method of discovering oil deposits is by the drilling of test wells. Such exploration is always hazardous and generally very costly. The problem of the prospector, therefore, is
Jan 1, 1932
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Secondary Ores And OreshootsSecondary minerals are the result of a process of concentration and enrichment and are commonly richer than the primary minerals of the same deposit. Secondary ores that contain abundant sulphides are
Jan 1, 1932
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A Comparison Of The Use Of Various Fuels In Copper-Refining FurnacesBy E. S. Bardwell
THE reverberatory copper-refining furnaces at the Great Falls Reduction Dept. of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. have used successively, as fuel, lump coal on grates, pulverized coal, oil and natural g
Jan 1, 1932