III. On the difference in the properties of Hot-Rolled and Cold-Rolled malleable iron, as regards the power of receiving and retaining induced magnetism of subpermanent character
The author states that he had been desirous of examining whether differences in the degree of change of subpermanent magnetism, such as are exhibited by different iron ships, might not depend on the temperature at which the iron is rolled in the last process of its manufacture. By the good offices of Mr. Fairbairn he had received gratuitously from Richard Smith, Esq., Superintendent of Lord Dudley’s Iron Works at the Round Oak Works near Dudley, twenty-four plates of iron, each 16 inches long, 4 inches broad, and 1/4 inch thick; twelve of which, after having been manufactured with the others in the usual way, had been passed through rollers when quite cold. Each set of twelve was divided into two parcels of six each, one parcel being cut with the length of the bars in the length of extension of the fibres of the iron, the other being cut with the length of the bars transverse to the length of extension.