Harvey, Hayward A

Harvey, Hayward A

▪ American inventor
born Jan. 17, 1824, Jamestown, N.Y., U.S.
died Aug. 28, 1893, Orange, N.J.

      versatile American inventor who discovered the modern method of strengthening armour plating.

      Harvey began his career as a draftsman in the New York Screw Company, of which his father was president. After a series of engineering jobs he founded (c. 1865) the Continental Screw Company, which he sold to the American Screw Company in 1887. In 1886 he established the Harvey Steel Company.

      All during his career Harvey experimented with iron and steel, and he secured 125 patents. He invented a hay cutter, a railway chair, and an exceptionally useful industrial bolt (a peripheral grip bolt). He also developed a technique for manufacturing superior products from ordinary-grade materials; his companies made such items as steel razor blades, dies, and plates for reinforcing safes. One of his most important inventions was a method for rolling the threads onto screws that made them cheaper to manufacture and much stronger than screws with threads cut into them.

      Harvey is best known for his method of strengthening steel armour plate for warships, a process utilized by most major naval powers of his time. Called carburizing, or cementing, the process involves keeping a steel plate heated at high temperature in contact with finely divided charcoal so that carbon penetrates the plate, toughening it. Although later manufacturers, including Krupp of Germany, improved on Harvey's process, his method remains the fundamental discovery in strengthening modern armour plating.

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