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Aluminum in America : a history / Quentin R. Skrabec.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skrabec, Quentin R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aluminum--United States--History.
- Aluminum.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Incorporated, Publishers, [2017]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 14, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 1-4766-2564-6
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