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Show THE TEST OF STEEL. BEX When the destructive agencies of MUlization were striking to wreck and ruin, with all the force that could j .be commanded, one advantage) possessed pos-sessed by those who planned ; . . : blow was a superior steel in the making mak-ing of tools and in the building of mighty guns. To produce this steel : the chemistry of hardeninp iron had been studied and metals which v.ct" classed as rare when Carnegie was ft 'workman in the plants at Pittsbur? were used. At the beginning the prediction pre-diction was made that the new steel would be a deciding factor in ihe con flict, but th' genius of Trance and of England proved qual to the unusual conditions, and steel held as novrr Bteel had held before in attack and H counterattack. At the close, America was said to have produced a combination of met als even better than the science and skill of Europe had brought from the furnace and the forge. But an Englishman Eng-lishman has surpassed the highest ef Jorts, and from Sheffield, that famed city or cutlery where the British iron . and steel industry attained a develop ment which placed all nations under ribufe, the announcement is made that John Oliver Arnold, professor of ; metallurgy, has invented the hardest ! of steel, capable of performing more; duty in tool form than any metal ever 1 utilized by man. Molybdenum is used But there are B rrets in the method of manufacture, and the American government is said to be seeking to obtain the process, uhile the British government aims o ! retain the process as a secret to on-rich on-rich the steel industry of England, and, perhaps, serve as a powerful wea jppn if Great Britain again be challenged chal-lenged in a life-and-death struggle, There is a hint conveyed in the dispatches dis-patches that Americans have a similar simi-lar invention and have been progressing progress-ing in the same-diroetlon if irue. the ' prediction can be made with some as- ! ( -urance of fulfillment that the steel i makers in the United States will have ' Professor Arnold's discover) or something some-thing better, within the near future. The progress of nations, since the' Iron age, has been based on the fabrl-1 eating of iron and steel, and the country coun-try which has led in the manufacture of the metals has excelled in industrial indus-trial advancement. For years England Eng-land was supreme. Then America displaced dis-placed that country and, tor a number - I of fSWrl prior to 1914, Germany was pushing forward to outrank England and overtake America. |