Aluminum in America : a history

著者

• Skrabec, Quentin R.

書誌事項

Aluminum in America : a history

Quentin R. Skrabec

Mcfarland, c2017

• : [pbk.]

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-237) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The history of aluminum takes in 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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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB25805045
• ISBN:
  • 9780786499557
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Jefferson, N.C.
• ページ数/冊数: viii, 244 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : TA480.A6
  • DC23 : 669/.7220973
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Aluminum industry and trade -- United States -- History