Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1912 — NEW STEEL DEFIES YEGGMEN [ARTICLE]

NEW STEEL DEFIES YEGGMEN

German Chemists Discover Alloy That Cannot Be Drilled, Blasted or Cut. New York; —The day of the scientific safe burglar is about over. A kind of steel that cannot be drilled, exploded or cut by the oxydiydrogen flame has been discovered by German chemists. Prof. Carl Duisberg, one of the chief foreign delegates to the International Chemists’ congress here, brought news of the discovery. He says it is a question of only a short time before the yeggman win have to turn to new fields. f Dr. Duisberg brought with him two specimens of steel. One was of the ordinary kind and had been cut In 5*4 minutes by the oxy-hydrogen flame and in six minutes by the oxyacetylene Asms. The second specimen was of the new. alloy, which had withstood the heat of both the oxy-hydrogen and oxy-acetylene flames for hours.