UNCONVENTIONAL APPROACHES TO LUBRICATION Available to Purchase

THE use of original and unconventional approaches to lubrication, a subject steeped in tradition, offers an example of the need today in research to use imagination as a springboard, rather than the lines dictated by previous papers and observations. One might say that the science of lubrication had it too easy for a century, but the sudden emergence of new devices and machines after World War II revealed how the technology in this field had lagged behind. New engineering designs tended to be bogged down because they could not be lubricated adequately, and the rise in rubbing speeds and temperatures which accompanied even conventional equipment served to make things more difficult still.