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Tempering Steel

Mr. N. P.

Ames, late of Chicopee, Mass., after expending much time and money in experiments, found that the most successful means of tempering swords and cutlasses that would stand the United States Government test, was by heating in a charcoal fire, hardening in pure spring water, and drawing the temper in charcoal flame. (See No. 3285.)

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