Re: MtMan-List: Re: AMM-List: aluminum

[John Kramer <kramer@kramerize.com>]

At 09:08 AM 11/9/98 -0500, Paul wrote:
>
>  Napoleon's buttons spoon ,plate,fork,and a cup was made from
>aluminum such came the name Napoleon"s silver.
> 

Napoleon III -- maybe -- certainly not the little Corporal who died in 1821
four years before Oersted first isolated the metal.  

Worldwide aluminum production in 1886 (the year the Hall-Heroult process with
bauxite was discovered) was less than 100 pounds.

Napoleon III may have had aluminum stuff made from metal derived from
experiments he funded for Deville.  It was certainly not common.  Rare and
precious as befits an Emperor.  But only after 1850 and before 1873 when
Napoleon III died.

John...

Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without.
John Kramer  <kramer@kramerize.com>