The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 2, January 12, 2003, Article 14

NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING OF THE HUNLEY

  Small world:  In response to last week's item about numismatic
  items found in the wreckage of the Confederate Submarine
  H. L. Hunley,  David Fanning writes: "Nondestructive Testing
  is the somewhat arcane area of science in which I work as an
  editor.  It's basically industrial science--physics and engineering
  -- involving evaluating components, structures and materials in
  ways which do not affect the future utility of the thing being
  tested. Hence, ultrasound, radiography, eddy current, infrared
  and electromagnetic testing are all forms of nondestructive
  testing (so is alloy analysis like X-ray diffraction, useful in
  numismatics).

  The journal I edit is "Materials Evaluation" and in a recent
  issue I published an article on the nondestructive testing of
  the structure of the Hunley wreckage:  "The Confederate
  Submarine H.L. Hunley and Nondestructive Testing," Vol. 60,
  No. 3, March 2002, pp. 409-419  (published by The
  American Society for Nondestructive Testing,
  http://www.asnt.org/)"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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