Includes bibliographical references and index.

Evolution of iron-and steelmaking -- Refractories for iron-and steelmaking -- Steel-plant fuels and fuel economy -- Manufacture of metallurgical coke and recovery of coal chemicals -- Iron ores -- Fluxes in iron-and steelmaking -- Slags in iron-and steelmaking -- Scrap for steelmaking -- Addition agents used in steelmaking -- Water requirements for steelmaking -- Tonnage oxygen for iron-and steelmaking -- Lubrication and lubricants -- The physical chemistry of iron-and steelmaking -- Direct-reduction processes -- The manufacture of pig iron -- The pneumatic steelmaking processes -- Open-hearth steelmaking processes -- Electric-furnace steelmaking -- Steel ingots -- Plastic working of steel -- Construction and operation of rolling mills -- Heating steel for hot working -- Production of steel blooms, slabs and billets -- Production of steel plates -- Railroad-rail and joint-bar production -- Structural and other shapes -- Production of wrought-steel wheels -- Production of railroad axles -- Merchant-bar production -- The manufacture of steel wire and steel wire products -- Manufacture of steel tubular products -- The manufacture of hot-strip mill products -- Manufacture of cold-reduced flat-rolled products -- Corrosion and protective coatings -- The manufacture of tin plate -- Long terne sheet and terne plate -- Production of galvanized sheet and strip -- Manufacture of heavy press forgings -- Castings-steel and iron -- Principles of heat treatment of steel -- Carbon steels -- Alloy steels -- Alloy tool steels -- High strength low-alloy steels -- Silcon-steel electrical sheets -- Stainless steels -- Steels for elevated-temperature service -- Steels for low-temperature and cryogenic service -- Mechanical testing -- Non-destructive inspection of steel -- Machinability of carbon, alloy and stainless steel -- Gages.