HENRY MARION HOWE— BURGESS [MM0IES [^xx A £ 



MEDALS 



Bessemer medal, Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain. 



Eliot Cresson medal, Franklin Institute of Philadelphia. 



Gold medal of the Verein zur Befoerderung des Gewerbfleisses, Berlin. 



Gold medal of Soci6t6 d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale of France (1916), 



John Fritz medal, American Institute of Mining Engineers, 1917. 



HONORARY DEGREES 



LL. D., Harvard, 1905. 



LL. D., Lafayette, 1905. 



Sc. D., University of Pittsburgh, 1915. 



III. PUBLICATIONS 



In this incomplete list of writings of Henry M. Howe the following abbreviations are used: 

 A. I. M. E. — Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. 

 A. S. M. E. — Transactions of American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 

 A. S. T. M. — Proceedings of the American Society for Testing Materials. 

 I. A. T. M. — Proceedings of the International Association for Testing Materials. 

 J. I. S. I. — Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute. 

 E. & M. J. — Engineering and Mining Journal. 



PRINCIPAL WORKS 



The metallurgy of steel. Scientific Publishing Co., New York, 1891. Translated into French. 



Metallurgical laboratory notes. 1902. Translated into French. 



Iron, steel, and other alloys. 1903. Translated into Russian. 



Metallography of steel and cast iron. 1916. 



Article on iron and steel in the new volumes of the 10th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1902. 



Article on iron and steel in the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 14, p. 801, 1910. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPERS 



Improvement in processes and furnaces for reducing and smelting ores; one-half assigned to Mr. Howe by Wil- 

 liam E. C. Eustis. U. S. Patent No. 209554, November, 1878. 

 Blast-furnace economy. A. E. M. E., 3, 1874-75. 

 What is steel. E. & M. J., Aug. 28, Sept. 4, Sept. 11, Sept. 18, 1875. 

 Thoughts on the thermic curves of blast furnaces. A. I. M. E., 5, 1876-77. 

 The nomenclature of iron. A. I. M. E., 5, 1876-77. 

 A direct process of copper smelting. A. I. M. E., 7, 1878-79. 



Two new processes for the extraction of nickel from its ores. A. I. M. E., 9, 1880-81. 

 On comparative efficiency of fans and positive blowers. A. I. M. E., 10, 1881-82. 

 Contributions to the metallurgy of nickel and copper. A. I. M. E., 10, 1881-82. 

 A suggested cure for blast-furnace chills. A. I. M. E., 11, 1882-83. 

 A systematic nomenclature for minerals. A. I. M. E., 12, 1883-84. 

 The patience of copper and silver as affected by annealing. A. I. M. E., 13, 1884-85. 

 Note on the contraction of iron under sudden cooling. A. I. M. E., 14, 1885-86. 

 Attainment of uniformity in the Bessemer process. A. I. M. E., 15, 1886-87. 

 Smelting cupreous pyrites. E. & M. J., March, 1879. 

 Bessemerizing sulphides. E. & M. J., May, 1879. 



Bessemerizing matte in a reverberatory furnace. E. & M. J., March, 18S3. 

 Bessemerizing copper matte. E. & M. J., April, 1883. 

 The Bessemerizing of copper matte. E. & M. J., May, 1883. 

 The Hunt and Douglas copper process. E. & M. J., December, 1885. 

 Rose Polytechnic Inst., annual scientific address, 1885. 

 Copper smelting. Bulletin 26, U. S. Geol. Survey, 1885. 

 The Clapp-Griffiths Bessemer plant. Science, 1885. 

 Bad rails. E. & M. J., May, 1886. 



The attainment of uniformity in the Bessemer process. E. & M. J., June, 1886. 

 The effect of slag on the fibrousness of Avesta steel. E. & M. J., September, 1886. 

 The Elizabeth copper mine, Vermont. E. & M. J., November, 1886. 

 The manufacture and cost of coke. E. & M. J., November, 1886. 

 The quality of steel for guns. E. & M. J., January, 1887. 

 Modern manufacture of steel. E. & M. J., 1887. 

 Two conditions of phosphorus in iron. A. I. M. E., 16, 1S87. 



