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Aluminum in America : a history / Quentin R. Skrabec

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : Mcfarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:
  • 1476625646
  • 9781476625645
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 0786499559 | 9780786499557 | 1476625646. | 9781476625645. | Erscheint auch als: Aluminum in America. Druck-Ausgabe Jefferson, North Carolina : Mcfarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]DDC classification:
  • 338.76697220973
LOC classification:
  • HD9539.A63
Online resources: Summary: "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."--PublisherSummary: 1. Prelude -- 2. Confluence -- Dynamos, Electric Furnaces and the Aluminum Process -- 3. Chemistry and Capitalism -- 4.Commercialization -- 5. Litigation and Growth -- 6. The Aluminum Industry Comes of Age -- 7. Metallurgical Wars and Monopoly -- 8. New Threats and New Markets -- 9. Birth of Alcan and the Rise of an International Industry -- 10. Paternal Capitalism and Colonialism -- 11. The 1930s Unionization and the End of Paternalism -- 12. The Great Antitrust Case -- 13. The War and the New Aluminum Industry -- 14. Oligopoly and the Dawning of the Golden Age for Aluminum -- 15. The 1950s -- The Products of the 1930s Come of Age -- 16. The 1950s -- The Aluminum Age -- 17. The 1960s and 1970s -- The Aluminum Age -- 18."Tin Cans" and Space Capsules -- 19. Space Age Products -- 20. The Best and Worst of Times, 1970-2000 -- 21. The World Aluminum Wars -- 22. The Future, Science Fiction and New Uses.PPN: PPN: 879130539Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-4-NLEBK | ZDB-4-EBU | ZDB-4-EBA
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