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RefNoEC/1918/07
Previous numbersCert XIII, 136; A01198
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TitleCarpenter, Sir Henry Cort Harold: certificate of election to the Royal Society
DescriptionDate stamp on reverse. Citation partly typed, partly extract cut from Printed List of candidates and pasted to certificate
CitationProfessor of Metallurgy in the Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington. Distinguished for his researches in Metallurgy and more especially for his work on High-Speed Tool Steel, Iron, Carbon, and Copper Alloys. Ex-Investigator to the Alloys Research Committee, and one of the founders of the Institute of Metals. Member of the Board of Inventions and Research. Member of Sub-Committee on the Erosion of Propellers, the cause of which was definitely ascertained. In July, 1915, dealt with a problem for the Government in connexion with cartridge metal arising out of shortage of zinc. Chairman of the Corresion Research Committee on Condenser Tubes. Chairman of a Committee on the Corrosion of Aeroplane Parts under the Air Board. Has published, among others, the following papers: - 'The Range of Solidification and the Critical Ranges of Iron-Carbon Alloys' (with B F E Keeling, Iron and Steel Inst, 1904); 'Report to the Alloys Research Committee on the Properties of a Series of Iron-Nickel-Manganese-Carbon Alloys' (with R A Hadfield and P Longmuir, Inst Mech Eng, 1905); 'The Types of Structure and the Critical Ranges on Heating and Cooling of High-Speed Tool Steels under varying Thermal Treatment' (Iron and Steel Inst, 1905); 'Report to the Alloys Research Committee on the Properties of the Alloys of Aluminium and Copper' (with C A Edwards, Inst Mech Eng, 1907); 'The Freezing Point of Iron' (Iron and Steel Inst); 'The Permanent Change of Volume of Cast Irons after Repeated Heatings' (with H F Rugan, Manch Lit and Phil Soc, 1909); 'The Production of Casting to Withstand High Pressures' (with C A Edwards, Inst Mech Eng, 1910); 'A New Critical Point in Copper-Zinc Alloys: its Interpretation and Influence on their Properties' (with C A Edwards, Inst of Metals, 1911); 'The Liquidus Curves and Constitution Diagram of the Ternary System, Aluminium-Copper-Zinc' (with C A Edwards, Int Zeits fur Metall, 1912); 'The Hardening of Metals with special reference toIron and its Alloy' (with Prof Edwards, 1914).
ProposersCharles A Parsons; W Gowland; Rayleigh; B Hopkinson; J Alfred Ewing; R J Strutt; W E Dalby; H B Baker; H B Dixon; Ernest Rutherford; H Lamb; R A Hadfield
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