With the help of powerful computers, researchers discovered a four-sided shape that naturally rests on one side, and built a ...

Columbia's Professor Colin Garfield Fink, who gave Industry a chromium-plated shield against rust, last week took out a patent for a tungsten-plated shield. Twenty million tons of iron and steel ...

TUNGSTEN FOR ARMOR PLATES,; A Metal Suggested Which Would Add Much to the Hardness of Steel. Share full article. F.C. June 3, 1894; Credit... The New York Times Archives.

The nuclear fury of heat turns the tungsten plate into a star-core-hot spindle-shaped-plume of ionized tungsten plasma. The x-ray opaque material and the beryllium oxide also vaporize a few ...

A second tungsten mine was opened at Castle-an-Dinas in Cornwall. Larger reserves were found across the world. During the course of WW1, 14,000 tons of ore were mined at Carrock, producing about ...

It was the new miracle metal. It more than doubled the efficiency of steel armour. It did the same for artillery shells, along with the barrels that fired them and the tools which made them. In ...