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Titanium - A Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

P. L. Teed
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Before making an appreciation of present knowledge about a single metal, it is not inappropriate to say something of all metals, for the ever-increasing tempo of material civilisation has largely depended on man's increasing knowledge of these constituents of his World. His first discovery in this field was copper. To it and to its alloys he gave an exclusive allegiance for some 100 generations, then about 3,000 years ago iron became, and still continues to be, the predominant metal of his needs.

In the eighteenth century, when alchemy finally gave way to the logic of scientific thought, the metals employed by man for purposes other than currency and decoration were practically confined to iron, copper, tin, zinc, mercury and lead. Today, when over seventy metallic elements are known, only a small number of these are used by the engineer.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 57 , Issue 508 , April 1953 , pp. 189 - 214
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1953

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