Wootz in "Scientific American"

[Falcenberg]

After reading some posts about wootz, I looked in my old issues of "Le Scienze", Italian Edition of "Scientific American", and I found in an issue of 1985 an article titled "Damascus Steel", describing some works about how obtain a "real" wootz. Its authors were an engineer from an airplane building company and an University teacher.

I tried to search this article on the Net, but I found nothing.

Just before I start typing the whole article, translating it from Italian to English, let me know if could be enough to post the names of the author, or you succeded to find the article, or it is BS.

It was quite technical, giving temperature, alloys and discussing iron-carbon diagram.

Falcenberg

 

[James Mattis]

The article was originally in English, and translated to Italian. The www.scientificamerican.com site has back issues on line, back to 1996. Finding a 1985 article will probably require a trip to a good English language public or college library.

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[e_utopia]

What month was the issue, and what was the title of the article (and the main title on the cover, in case they didn't publish it in Italian the same month as English)?

--thanks,
JB

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[Falcenberg]

Just a moment, I am collecting some data about the article...

Falcenberg

 

[Marion David Poff]

There is an article about Wootz that I just put a link up to...

Go to
http://www.geocities.com/mdpoff/nlinks.html

You want the first link.

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Marion David Poff aka Eye, Cd'A ID, USA mdpoff@hotmail.com

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