Aluminum In America: A History

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.

• | Author: Quentin R. Skrabec
• | Publisher: Mcfarland & Company
• | Publication Date: Feb 15, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 252 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 0786499559
• | ISBN-13: 9780786499557