Smith, Cyril Stanley

Smith, Cyril Stanley. A History of Metallography The Development of Ideas on the Structure of Metals before 1890. Chicago The University of Chicago Press, 1960. 

Cyril Stanley Smith (1903-1992) (Fig. 14.2) was a British-born metallurgist who studied at Birmingham University and then emigrated to the United States as a young man, took a doctorate at MIT, and spent 16 years as a successful researcher... 

Figure 14.2. Portrait of Cyril Stanley Smith in old age (courtesy of MIT museum)...

Next, I want to acknowledge my deep debt to the late Professor Cyril Stanley Smith, metallurgist and historian, who taught me much of what 1 know about the proper approach to the history of a technological discipline and gave me copies of many of his incomparable books, which are repeatedly cited in mine. 

Biringuccio, Vannoccio. The Pirotechnica of Vannoccio Biringuccio translated by Cyril Stanley Smith and Martha Teach Gnudi. New York Dover, 1990. 

Commentary on the Papers of Cyril Stanley Smith and Marie Boas. 

Or so, at least, believed the chief superintendent of mines for the Holy Roman Emperor, Lazar Ercker. See Lazarus Ercker, Treatise on Ores and Assaying, trans. and ed. Anneliese Griinhaldt Sisco and Cyril Stanley Smith (Chicago University of Chicago Press, 1951). 

The pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio The Classic Sixteenth-Century Treatise on Ores and Assaying, ed. and trans. Cyril Stanley Smith and Martha Teach Gnudi, rev. ed. (1959 facsimile, New York Dover Publications, 1990), 159-60. 

A.G. Sisco and C.S. Smith (transL), Lazarus Ercker s Treatise on Ores and Assaying (translated by Anneliese Griinhaldt Sisco and Cyril Stanley Smith from the German edition of 1580), The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1951.1 employed this source for interpretations. 

Theophilus, On Divers Arts, John G. Hawthorne and Cyril Stanley Smith, translators (Dover, New York, 1979), pp. 40-41. 

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