Table of Contents
Foreword, The Royal Society, Acknowledgements, Acknowledgements for Illustrations, Chapter 1: Metals and the Origins of the Royal Society, Chapter 2: Metals and the Early Period of the Royal Society, Chapter 3: Chemistry, Metallurgy and Materials Processing, Chapter 4: Precious Metals - the Platinum Group, Chapter 5: Minting of Coinage, Chapter 6: Non-Ferrous Extraction Metallurgy, Chapter 7: Iron and Steel Production, Chapter 8: Metallurgy and the Electrical Age, Chapter 9: Engineers and Their Metallic Materials, Chapter 10: The Emergence of Physical Metallurg, Chapter 11: Physical and Chemical Properties of Metals and Alloys, Chapter 12: Advances in Techniques for the Study of Materials' Structures, Chapter 13: Fundamentals of Elastic and Plastic Deformation, Chapter 14: Metallurgical Challenges of Engineering Applications, Chapter 15: Processing for Engineering Applications, Chapter 16: Alloy Structure and Constitution, Chapter 17: Non-Metallic Materials and the Royal Society, Chapter 18: Metals and the Atomic Age, Chapter 19: The Royal Society and the Industrial Revolutions, Biographies of Fellows and Foreign Members, Appendix 1: Some Aspects of the History of Metallurgical Education of University Rank in Great Britain, Relating to Fellows of the Royal Society (Up to mid-20th century), Appendix 2: Royal Society Awards, Appendix 3: Bakerian Lectures, Appendix 4: Nobel Prize Winners (Fellows and Foreign Members referred to in the Biographies Section), Appendix 5: Fellows of the Royal Society - Presidents of British Institutes of Metallurgy and Materials, Appendix 6: Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society -Recipients of Premier Awards of British Institutes of Metallurgy and Materials, Appendix 7: Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society (referred to in the Biographies Section) Chronological List of Election Dates, Appendix 8: Bibliography, Name Index, Academic and Industrial Index, Subject Index
