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- Author: Quentin R Skrabec
- Publisher: McFarland & Company
- ISBN-10: 0786499559
- ISBN-13: 9780786499557
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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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.
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- Author: Quentin R Skrabec
- Publisher: McFarland & Company
- ISBN-10: 0786499559
- ISBN-13: 9780786499557
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
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.
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