Editing 1912 in science (section)

==Metallurgy==
* [[Krupp]] engineers Benno Strauss and Eduard Maurer patent [[Austenite|austenitic]] [[stainless steel]] (October 17)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nirosta.de/History.22.0.html?&L=1|title=ThyssenKrupp Nirosta: History|accessdate=August 13, 2007|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070902202906/http://www.nirosta.de/History.22.0.html?&L=1|archivedate=September 2, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> and [[Elwood Haynes]] (in the United States) and [[Harry Brearley]] (of [[Firth Brown Steels|Brown-Firth]] in [[Sheffield]], England) independently discover [[martensite|martensitic]] stainless steel alloys.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/scientificameric0000carl|url-access=registration|quote=Elwood Haynes 1919 patent number.|title=Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries|page=[https://archive.org/details/scientificameric0000carl/page/380 380]|first=Rodney P.|last=Carlisle|publisher=John Wiley and Sons|year=2004|isbn=978-0-471-24410-3| accessdate= 3 September 2011 <!--DASHBot-->}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=A non-rusting steel|date=January 31, 1915}}</ref>