Black Sand
The History of Titanium
by Kathleen L. Housley

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• Publisher: Metal Management Aerospace
• Format: paperback, 148 pages
• Language: english
• Release date: January 1, 2007
• ISBN: 9780935297430 (093529743X)
• Author: Kathleen L. Housley

About The Book

It took wome of the best metallurgical minds of the twentieth century to turn black sand into titanium. Until the 1930s, titatnium was merely a laboratory curiosity, dangling before the eyes of metallurgists the prospect of great strength combined with light-weight prorperties. It, however, defied attempts to make it in quantity until the eve of World War II when William Kroll developed a unique process. Convinced of teh metal’s value, the US Armed Forces jump-started the titanium industry in the 1950s with huge amounts of Federal money. But titanium was both a dream and a nightmare, grudingly yielding its secrets. Not until the top-secret spy plane, the SR-71 Blackbird, did the metal come of age. This story is rich in drama because titanium demanded maximum effort from a generation of metallugists.

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