Author: Scott F. SibleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Flow Studies for Recycling Metal Commodities in the United States
Author: Scott F. SibleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Author: Minerals Yearbook
Author: Aluminum Dreams
Author: Mimi ShellerPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262321378
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
How aluminum enabled a high-speed, gravity-defying American modernity even as other parts of the world paid the price in environmental damage and political turmoil. Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined aesthetic that came to represent modernity. And it became an essential ingredient in industrial and domestic products that ranged from airplanes and cars to designer chairs and artificial Christmas trees. It entered modern homes as packaging, foil, pots and pans and even infiltrated our bodies through food, medicine, and cosmetics. In Aluminum Dreams, Mimi Sheller describes how the materiality and meaning of aluminum transformed modern life and continues to shape the world today. Aluminum, Sheller tells us, changed mobility and mobilized modern life. It enabled air power, the space age and moon landings. Yet, as Sheller makes clear, aluminum was important not only in twentieth-century technology, innovation, architecture, and design but also in underpinning global military power, uneven development, and crucial environmental and health concerns. Sheller describes aluminum's shiny utopia but also its dark side. The unintended consequences of aluminum's widespread use include struggles for sovereignty and resource control in Africa, India, and the Caribbean; the unleashing of multinational corporations; and the pollution of the earth through mining and smelting (and the battle to save it). Using a single material as an entry point to understanding a global history of modernization and its implications for the future, Aluminum Dreams forces us to ask: How do we assemble the material culture of modernity and what are its environmental consequences? Aluminum Dreams includes a generous selection of striking images of iconic aluminum designs, many in color, drawn from advertisements by Alcoa, Bohn, Kaiser, and other major corporations, pamphlets, films, and exhibitions.
Aluminum Recycling
Author: Mark E. SchlesingerPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 142000624X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Even though over 30% of the aluminum produced worldwide now comes from secondary sources (recycled material), there are few books that cover the recycling process from beginning to end. Meeting the need for a comprehensive treatment of the aluminum recycling process, Aluminum Recycling explores the technology and processing strategies required to c
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Author: United States. Patent and Trademark OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1332
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U.S. Geological Survey Circular
Author: Circular
Author: United States Geological SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Information Circular
Author: BSCS Science Technology : Investigating Earth Systems, Teacher Edition
Author: Publisher: Kendall Hunt
ISBN: 9780757501821
Category : Earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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