Aluminum in America

A History

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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The history of aluminum: metallurgy, engineering, global business and politics--and the advance of civilization itself. The earth's most abundant metal, aluminum remained largely inaccessible until after the Industrial Revolution. A precious commodity in 1850s, it later became a strategic resource: while steel won World War I, aluminum won World War II.A generation later, it would make space travel possible and the 1972 Pioneer spacecraft would carry a message from mankind to extraterrestrial life, engraved on an aluminum plate. Today aluminum, along with oil, is the natural resource driving geopolitics, and China has taken the lead in manufacture.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-01-03
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt345 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor252
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786499557

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Table of ContentsPreface1. Prelude2. Confluence—Dynamos, Electric Furnaces and the Aluminum Process3. Chemistry and Capitalism4. Commercialization5. Litigation and Growth6. The Aluminum Industry Comes of Age7. Metallurgical Wars and Monopoly8. New Threats and New Markets9. Birth of Alcan and the Rise of an International Industry10. Paternal Capitalism and Colonialism11. The 1930s Unionization and the End of Paternalism12. The Great Antitrust Case13. The War and the New Aluminum Industry14. Oligopoly and the Dawning of the Golden Age for Aluminum15. The 1950s—The Products of the 1930s Come of Age16. The 1950s—The Aluminum Age17. The 1960s and 1970s—The Aluminum Age18. “Tin Cans” and Space Capsules19. Space Age Products20. The Best and Worst of Times, 1970–200021. The World Aluminum Wars22. The Future, Science Fiction and New UsesChapter NotesBibliographyIndex