Historical Origin of Stainless Steel

The invention and use of stainless steel dates back to the First World War. British scientist Henry Brierley was commissioned by the British government's military department arsenal to study the improvement of weapons. At that time, the rifle bore used by soldiers was extremely easy to wear, and Brierley wanted to invent an alloy steel that would not wear easily.

Brearley's invention of stainless steel in 1916 obtained the British patent and began mass production, so that the stainless steel found by chance in the garbage will be popular around the world, Henry Brearley is also known as the "father of stainless steel". World War I, the British guns on the battlefield, always due to the wear and tear of the chamber can not be used and shipped back to the rear. Military production department ordered the development of high-strength wear-resistant alloy steel Brearley, specializing in research to solve the problem of gun chamber wear. Brearley and his assistant collected various types of steel produced at home and abroad, a variety of different properties of alloy steel, performance experiments on a variety of different properties of machinery, and then choose the more applicable steel made of gun. One day, they experimented with a kind of domestic alloy steel containing a lot of chromium, and after the wear-resisting experiment, it was found that this alloy was not wear-resisting, which meant that this could not make guns, so they recorded the experiment results and threw it to the corner. One day, a few months later, an assistant came rushing to Brearley with a shiny piece of steel and said, "Sir, this is the alloy steel I found when cleaning the warehouse from Mr. Maura, do you experiment to see what special effect it actually has!" "Good!" Brierly looked at the shiny and dazzling steel and said happily.

Experimental results proved: it is a piece of stainless steel that is not afraid of acids, alkalis and salts. This stainless steel was invented by the German Maura in 1912, however, Maura does not know what use this stainless steel.

Brearley heart calculations: "This is not wear-resistant but corrosion-resistant steel, can not make guns, whether it can do tableware?" He said dry, hands-on production of stainless steel fruit knives, forks, spoons, fruit plates and folding knives.