Percy Armstrong (1883-1949): A transatlantic pioneer of alloy steels

Abstract

Historians of metallurgy, perhaps more aware than most of the crucial importance of alloy steels, have recently begun unravelling their complicated developoment. The Historical Metallurgy Society made a major contribution to our understanding of this field by hosting a conference in September 1984 on the subject of alloy steels. lt brought together much unrecorded development work and many personal memoirs. lt shed light on those alloy steel pioneers, now mostly forgotten, who in their day stood at the leading edge of an industry that was transforming the world. Such a man was Percy Armstrong.