| RefNo | EC/1903/12 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XII, 176 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Stead, John Edward: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Member of the Council of the Iron and Steel Institute. Metallurgical Chemist. He is distinguished as a Metallurgist and is one of the leading authorities in this country on the constitution and structure of metals as revealed by the microscope. He also possesses special knowledge of the Metallurgy of Iron and Steel, and is a singularly skilful analyst. He is the author of numerous papers, among which the following are the more important: - Papers published by the Iron and Steel Institute: - 1880, 'On an Improved Apparatus Designed for the Analysis of Blast Furnace and other Gases'; 1892-1893, 'On the Elimination of Sulphur from Iron'; 1893, 'On Methods of determining Chromium, with notes on the distribution of Chromium in British Irons'; 1895, 'On the Effect of Arsenic in Steel'; 1898, 'On the Crystalline Structure of Iron and Steel' and 'Brittleness produced in Soft Steel by Annealing'; 1900, 'Iron and Phosphorus.' Papers published by the Society of Chemical Industry: 1897-1898, 'On the Microchemical Examination of Alloys' and 'The Microstructure of Alloys.' Papers published by the Cleveland Institute of Engineers and by the West of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute: 1876-1878, 'Phosphorus in Cleveland Iron Ore and Iron,' parts i and ii; 1879-1880, 'On the Dephosporization of Iron,' parts i and ii; 1894-1895, 'On the Relative Fertilising Value of Different Varieties of Basic Slag'; 1895-1896, 'On the Preliminary Microchemical Examination of Malleable Casting'; 1896-1897, 'On the Microchemical Examination of Old Steel Rails and Tyres'; 1898-1899, 'On the Microscopical Study of Causes Inducing to Structural Fracture in Iron and Steel'; 1899-1900, 'Practical Metallography and the Structure of Phosphoretic Pig Metals'; 1900-1901, 'On Metallic Alloys.' |
| Proposers | Lowthian Bell; H C Sorby; [William C Roberts Austen]; J A Ewing; E H Griffiths; C T Heycock; F H Neville; William Crookes; W C Unwin; H MacLeod |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA5363 | Stead; John Edward (1851 - 1923) | 1851 - 1923 |