{"id":1782,"date":"2011-04-19T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info-libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2023-07-12T16:01:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T16:01:35","slug":"1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/04\/19\/1963\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 103 – 1963: Explosive Working of Metals by John S. Rinehart and John Pearson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published: New York, 1963<\/p>\n

Welding of metals is a process crucial to \"\"<\/a>technology and industry, but certain metals defy conventional welding. Explosive welding was developed as a solution to this problem, allowing such welded pairings as titanium with steel, and copper with steel. The research partnership of Rinehart and Pearson was among the first to develop this now widely-applied technology.
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\nRinehart and Pearson met while both were working at the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake, California. As they state in the preface to Explosive <\/em>Working of Metals<\/em>, each author wrote the section of the book with which he was most familiar: Reinhart\u2019s portion is on the \u201cphysical basis of explosive metal working\u201d while Pearson covers \u201cengineering fundamentals and practices of explosive metal working.\u201d<\/p>\n

This book was once at the forefront of explosive metalworking research. The preface notes that \u201ca treatise of this type, being the first in this field, will be especially useful to aircraft and missiles producers \u2026 as well as the thousands of small and large companies supplying parts to these major industries.\u201d<\/p>\n

We know that at least one major company found the book \"\"<\/a>useful enough to be worth purchasing: ownership stamps at the front of MIT\u2019s copy indicate that it was originally in the Advanced Research Department of the E.G. & G. Library in Bedford, Mass.<\/p>\n

E.G. & G. (now a part of URS Corporation) was a company formed after World War II by MIT engineers Harold \u201cDoc\u201d Edgerton, Kenneth Germeshausen, and Herbert Grier (Germeshausen and Grier, as graduate students, had both studied with Edgerton at MIT). \u00a0E.G. & G. did defense contract work in nuclear weaponry for the United States government, and helped to develop the hydrogen bomb.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Find it in the library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published: New York, 1963 Welding of metals is a process crucial to technology and industry, but certain metals defy conventional welding. Explosive welding was developed as a solution to this problem, allowing such welded pairings as titanium with steel, and copper with steel. The research partnership of Rinehart and Pearson was among the first to develop this now widely-applied technology. Rinehart and Pearson met while both were working at the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake, California. As they state in the preface to Explosive Working of Metals, each author wrote the section of the book with which he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-years"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4312,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/4312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}