History of Aluminum

Abstract

Aluminum is one the most important metal used not only in the automotive industry but practically in various industries including aero space and constructions . Though its price today is relative lower than any other metals yet its suitability to different purposes provides companies and firms an easy and affordable suitable material . In fact the usefulness of aluminum in the electrification had greatly contributed to stable and efficient electricity worldwide . Aluminum has also been used as construction model used for bridges and other concrete structures such as roofs and other engineering

projects . From its humble beginnings , the use of aluminum in industrial and engineering purposes marks the evolution of the use of aluminum and beginning of the modern engineering designs

History of Aluminum

Aluminum as a metal came to its existence only 200 years ago . However Dmitry Eskin noted that almost 2000 years ago , Pleny the Elder mentions a strange , light , and silvery metal in his Historia Naturalis which might indicate that aluminum may have been discovered accidentally and then forgotten (Eskin 2008 ,

. 1 . Citing the work of Pleny the Elder , Eskin puts it

One day a gold smith in Rome was allowed to show the Emperor Tiberius a dinner plate of a new metal . The plate was very light , and almost as bright as silver . The goldsmith told the Emperor that he had made the metal from plain clay . He also assured the Emperor that only he himself , and the gods knew how to produce these metal from...