The belief expressed in the writer's preface five years ago has been well home out. To-day there are over 212 electric furnaces in the iron and steel industry in the United States and Canada out of a total of 562. Over half a million tons of electric steel are being made annually the world over, and production only started less than a score of years ago.

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