60 years ago. (Pastimes).

Advanced Materials & Processes,  February, 2003  

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February 1943: Amazed to hear Ben Hopkins, head of Cleveland Graphite Bronze, say that the silver used every day in electroplated surfaces for heavy duty bearings in a new factory now getting into production would be measured in tons, and while a ton of metal is not very much in a bridge girder, it is a whale of a lot in an electroplate, even a thick one.

Mused also on the fact that good bearings can be made of so many different things and lubricated with so many materials, but thought that, after all, such was a necessary condition for the prehistoric invention of the wheel. That ...

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