Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1918 — Munition Brass to Cost Leas. [ARTICLE]

Munition Brass to Cost Leas.

Perfection of a new type of electric melting furnace that will reduce materially tiie cost of making brass fox munitions, devised by H. W. Glllett, a government chemist, was announced by the bureau of mines. Patents have been assigned to Secretary of the Interior Lane as trustee. Cornell university and brass manufacturers were among those who assisted during five years of development of the device. It is intended to supplant open crucibles in which rinc and copper are melted by fuel heat under present manufacturing methods.