'Bible' Story: Machining Data Handbook

摘要

Conducting research and collecting data about the machinability of materials was critical to advancing metal-cutting technology during the early and middle decades of the last century. Just as crucial was compiling that data into a usable form. Metcut Research Associates Inc., Cincinnati, spearheaded such an effort. The end product of its work was the 1966 publication of the Machining Data Handbook, heralded as the "bible" of the industry. The story of the book's publication begins with Dr. Michael Field. He, along with his colleague at The Cincinnati Milling Machine Co., Norman Zlatin, set out in 1948 to establish a company devoted to conducting research and development aimed at helping American manufacturing companies solve their immediate machining problems and deploy existing and new machining technology. Joining them was Dr. John F. Kahles, who, at the time, was professor of metallurgy at the University of Cincinnati.