From the preface: The purpose of this (text)book is to offer the user of high-frequency induction -heating equipment basic technical application details that will
serve as a ready reference in connection with the heating of metal parts, such as may be required for hardening, heat-treating, brazing, soldering, annealing, stress-relieving, forging, upsetting, or melting ... Other than a brief reference to electrical data characteristic to this type of heating, the text is confined to application technique.
The text includes a broad coverage of heating coils and fixtures as used in hardening and joining operations ...
A brief chapter has been included on (dialectric heating), mainly for the purpose of showing the differences between these two methods of heat transfer.