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Aluminum in America : a history
Yazar:
Skrabec, Quentin R., author.
ISBN:
9780786499557

9781476625645
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
viii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
İçerik:
Prelude -- Confluence: dynamos, electric furnaces and the aluminum process -- Chemistry and capitalism -- Commercialization -- Litigation and growth -- The aluminum industry comes of age -- Metallurgical wars and monopoly -- New threats and new markets -- Birth of Alcan and the rise of an international industry -- Paternal capitalism and colonialism -- The 1930s unionization and the end of paternalism -- The great antitrust case -- The war and the new aluminum industry -- Oligopoly and the dawning of the golden age for aluminum -- 1950s: the products of the 1930s come of age -- The 1950s: the aluminum age -- The 1960s and 1970s: the aluminum age -- "Tin cans" and space capsules -- Space age products -- The best and worst of times: 1970-2000 --The world aluminum wars -- The future, science fiction and new uses.
Özet:
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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