# HENRY FORD TRADE SCHOOL. PART 2. \[METALLURGY\]

HENRY FORD TRADE SCHOOL. PART 2. \[METALLURGY\] Produced: 1927 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “Chemistry laboratory -- beginners learning to identify metals.” Boys working in chemistry laboratory. “Advanced students determining the percentage composition of steels and non-ferrous alloys for school foundry.” Boys in chemistry laboratory, instructor moving among them. “Pouring a test bar of cast iron for analysis in the school laboratory.” Hands holding small ladle with tongs pouring molten metal into mold - tongs removing hot bar from mold. “Drilling samples of cast iron from school foundry for testing percentage of carbon content. These drillings are accurately weighed.” Boy drilling metal bar, placing drillings on piece of paper, weighing them, brushing them into small tray, pouring something over them, placing tray into tubular oven. “When heated in the presence of oxygen, carbon leaves the cast iron, forming carbon dioxide (CO2). This is collected, weighed, and the carbon content computed.” Removing tray from oven. “Weighing.” Using microbalance. “Metallography -- studying the theory of steel heat treatment.” Classroom, teacher in front of blackboard lecturing to students. “Studying structural changes taking place during the heating and cooling of a metal.” Boys working with laboratory equipment. “Testing hardness of steel sample.” Using testing equipment. “Polishing steel samples for examination under the…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1927
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-3147)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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