Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — The Strength of Steel. [ARTICLE]

The Strength of Steel.

An experiment, with a View to ascertain the relative resistance, under pressure, of the hardest steel and the hardest stone, was recently made at Vienna. Small cubes, measuring 1 cm. of corundum and of the finest steel, were subjected to the test. The cbtnnduiri broke under the weight of six tons, but the steel resisted up to forty-two tons. The steel split up with a noise like the report of a gun, breaking into a powder, and Sending sparks in every direction which bored their way into the machine like shot.