Science: Microscope

Francis Ferdinand Lucas, metallurgist and microscopist of Bell Telephone Laboratories, had good news for the members of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers assembled last week in Manhattan. Said he: "There will shortly be delivered in New York a new metallographic equipment. ... I have recently put it through its paces . . . and I speak with a measure of assurance when I say that we shall see some revolutionary advances in the art of metallography."

The new metallograph, an instrument which scientists use to pry into the minute...

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