Aluminum Smelting
InventorCharles Martin Hall
Year1886
CategoryManufacturing
OriginUSA
About Aluminum Smelting
Aluminum was once more valuable than gold. Napoleon III served his most honored guests with aluminum plates. Hall and Paul Heroult independently discovered the same process. The Washington Monument tip is aluminum, the largest piece cast at the time.
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