Green Pickslay and Co. have great pleasure in informing Mr. Ferrady that they have made a number of experiments with the alloys, recommended by him, and find the Steel greatly improved by them; they send a specimen alloyed with Silver, Iridium, and Rhodium, which they consider the best they have produced, these alloys with some valuable practical hints, have been furnished by Mr Johnson3 No 79, Hatton Gardens; the report of the Forgers is that the steel works better under the Hammer, than any they have before used, and likewise hardens in a much superior manner. Green Pickslay & Co. beg Mr. Ferrady’s acceptation of a pair of Razors made from this Steel. They will have great pleasure in sending other Specimens of Cutlery &c as they continue their experiments.
HADFIELD, Robert A. (1931): Faraday and His Metallurgical Researches with Special Reference to their bearing on the development of alloy steels, London.
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