(Excerpt from Metallurgical Calculations, Vol. 1
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Excerpt from Metallurgical Calculations, Vol. 1
With diluted air: Farley's system. With hot air and cold gas. With hot air and hot gas. Effect Of excess air. Calculation of furnace efficiencies. Chimney draft. Water gas. Producer gas: Efficiency, effect of drying. Mixed gas: Use of steam in producers. Increased efficiency. Maximum steam permissible. Transmission of heat through metals, brick, etc. Regenerative gas furnace: Proportioning of gas and air regenerators. Efficiency of regenerators. Heat balance sheet. Theoretical temperatures under different conditions. Gas engines: Calculation Of temperature in cylinder. Efficiency; balance sheet. Cupolas: Amount of blast required. Efficiency of running. Blast furnaces Balance sheet Of materials. Calculation of blast received. Efficiency of blowing engines. Power and dimensions of blowing engines. Carbon consumed at tuyeres. Effect of atmospheric changes. Effect of the moisture in the blast. Calculation of the temperature. Effect Of hot-blast. Heat balance sheet of the furnace. Power producible from the waste gases. Hot-blast stoves: Theory of iron-pipe and fire-brick stoves. Efficiency. Bessemer Converters Blast required and time of Operation Balance sheet of materials.
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Joseph William Richards was a metallurgist and teacher.
Background
Joseph William Richards was born on July 28, 1864 in Oldbury, Worcestershire, England, of English-Scotch parents, Joseph and Bridget (Harvey) Richards, who brought him to the United States when he was about seven years old. He was not the first of his line to follow the engineering and metallurgical profession, for his grandfather, William Richards, was a locomotive and bridge builder in England, and his father, a manufacturing metallurgical chemist in Philadelphia, was awarded the John Scott medal of the Franklin Institute for the first successful solder for aluminum.
Education
Joseph received his early education in the public schools of Philadelphia and entered Lehigh University in 1882, receiving the degree of analytical chemist in 1886. After serving one year as superintendent of the Delaware Metal Refinery in Philadelphia (1886 - 87), he returned to the university for a period of graduate work, during which he was also successively assistant instructor and instructor in metallurgy, mineralogy, and blowpiping. In 1891 he received the degree of master of science, and in 1893, that of doctor of philosophy, the first to be granted by Lehigh. He also studied in Heidelberg and Freiberg, Germany.
Career
In 1897 he was made assistant professor and in 1903, professor of metallurgy.
As an author, his principal works include a treatise on Aluminium, first published in 1887 and revised and reissued in 1890 and 1896, a recognized authority on the subject in English and the most complete in any language; and Metallurgical Calculations which has been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Russian.
He published the following monographs, all translations from the German: The Electrolysis of Water (1904), by Viktor Engelhardt; The Production of Chromium and Its Compounds by the Aid of the Electric Current (1904), by Max J. L. Le Blanc; Arrangement of Electrolytic Laboratories (1905), by Herman Nissenson; and The Manufacture of Metallic Articles Electrolytically (1906), by Wilhelm Pfanhauser.
From the Italian he translated The Cementation of Iron and Steel (1915), by Frederico Giolitti.
He was a member of the naval consulting board from its formation in 1915. For two summers he took no vacation and as Washington representative, on a dollar-a-year basis, gave freely and cheerfully of his time, talents, and energy, at risk to health, performing with dogged persistence the task he had accepted as his patriotic duty. This devotion was characteristic of Richards, as was demonstrated again and again by his whole-hearted service as officer or committeeman in numerous professional societies.
In addition to his activities in the various technical organizations to which he belonged, he also served as member of the United States assay commission (1897); representative of the Franklin Institute to the International Geological Congress in Russia (1897); member of the jury of awards, Department of Chemistry, at the National Export Exhibition, Philadelphia (1899); and member of the jury of awards and chairman of the sub-jury on metallurgy, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco (1915).
Achievements
Richards loved to teach and would spend any amount of time on those who wished to learn. It is not surprising, therefore, that he was rated as an efficient and inspiring instructor with singular success in stimulating the interest of his students in even the drier aspects of the subjects he taught.
Always a student and investigator, he lost no opportunity to add to his knowledge of a wide range of subjects. Travel, which he greatly enjoyed, he used as a means of getting first-hand information on metallurgical practice, not only in the United States but also abroad. He became recognized as an authority in metallurgy, especially the metallurgy of aluminum, electrometallurgy, and metallurgical-chemical calculations, and was widely employed as legal expert and adviser.
In 1893 he received a medal at the Columbian Exposition for an exhibit showing the metallurgy of aluminum.
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Religion
Throughout his life he gave much thought to religious and philosophic subjects; he was a member of the Unitarian Church.
Views
Quotations:
"I always have a time for each task and I stick religiously to my schedule".
Interests
He was a lover of music and sang as a first bass in the Bach Choir of Bethlehem at intervals from 1900 to his death in 1921. He was something of an art connoisseur and collected a number of excellent canvases.
Connections
On March 12, 1887, he married his second cousin, Arnamarie Gadd. Two daughters and one son survived them.
