Verbatim report of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Street-Railway Association (1884)
American Street Railway Association. Meeting · Brooklyn, N.Y. : Office of the Association · leaf 228
ee you are running it away above the melting point of the zinc. The result is that in a very short time your German silver wire becomes crystallized and brittle. Fig. 3 is from a drawing which I made from examining a German silver wire under the microscope, although I confess that the reproduc-… … FIG. 3. trating the crystallization of a piece of German silver wire. This, as I intimated, is due principally to the crystallization of the zinc, as we know that zinc naturally comes in a crystalling form. The other sec- tion in Fig. 3 represents an iron wire that has been used four winters in
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