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Aluminium in America
A History
Auteur(s) : Skrabec, Quentin R.
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Notice du document
- Titre / Title
- Aluminium in America
A History - Auteur(s) / Author(s)
- Skrabec Quentin R., auteur principal
- Type de document
- Ouvrage
- Catégorie d'ouvrage
- ALUMINIUM
- Publication
- Etats-Unis: McFarland, 2017
- Description technique / Physical description
- 1 (244 p.) : ill., couv. ill. en coul.; 23 cm
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- ISBN
- 978-0-7864-9955-7
- Langue / Language
- Anglais
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Description
- Résumé / Abstract
- Résumé indiqué en quatrième de couverture :
"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."
