Steel Alloys
In a second key advance in metallurgy Mushet invented 'R Mushet's Special Steel' (RMS) in 1868. It was both the first true tool steel and the first air-hardening steel. Previously, the only way to make steel hard enough for machine tools had been to quench it, by rapid cooling in water. Self-hardening (or tungsten) steel machine tools could run much faster and were able to cut harder metals than had been possible previously. RMS revolutionised the design of machine tools and the progress of industrial metalworking, and was the forerunner of high speed steel.
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