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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aluminium bromide), dissolves it in an organic solution (ordinary electroplating uses metal salts in water), submerges the object to be coated, and through both solution and object passes a direct electric current. The procedure is very difficult to carry through, is expensive-and so probably not generally useful. Aluminum Co. of America is not using...
...Aluminum Co. of America using three other suggested methods of shielding base metals against corrosives with aluminum. One of these is mightily to press thin sheets of aluminum against sheets of steel. Workability here is limited. Germans are using this process in a semi-commercial way. Another is to heat iron and steel in contact with aluminum. This calorizing process (exploited by Calorizing Co. of America at Pittsburgh, a General Electric offshoot) helps prevent oxidation, but reputedly little else. Lastly there is spraying objects-of wood, paper, metal, etc.-with aluminum particles. An aluminum wire is fed through an electric...
...Aluminum Co. of America prefers to refine metallic aluminum and sells its product as sheets, tubing, wire and rods for manufacturers to machine. Persuading artificers to adopt aluminum has always been difficult. So the company has been obliged to pioneer, to prove to others that aluminum things are saleable...
...latest difficulty has been with aluminum furniture. Furniture makers, materially conservative, refused to listen to Aluminum Co. technicians. Sheet metal fabricators might be shouting success about their metal office and home furniture. But the public really wanted wood, declared the furniture men. So Aluminum Co. simply went into furniture manufacture. First products to be exploited are office chairs-"easy chair comfort when you need it most." The material (upholstered) is as stout as mild steel and much lighter. The chairs, and other furniture already on sale, are coated in the exact grain of wood-mahogany, walnut, oak. When professional furniture...
...intrepid scientists will not live entirely bleak and barren lives. They may improve their minds. For light reading, they will have: The Little Blue Books (1,280 volumes donated by the Haldernan-Julius Co.), the Harvard Classics, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a set of the works of Rudyard Kipling (Doubleday, Doran), a dictionary (Merriam...