ins, a soft, low carbon steel was ‘generally excellence it is believed to be the equal of or to exceed much as the finished piece is to weigh. The ingot is employed, and failures due to “ fatigue of metal” were any similar shop. The operations performed in the forged down, rough bored and turned… … on their locomo- face plates of the tives; and where lathes and have the form and size their weight car- of the forgings will allow of such treatment, they are made hollow in order that they may be oil tem- The lathes are gigantic structures. pered to still further increase the physical properties…
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