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Article: Pastimes.
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- Advanced Materials & Processes
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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Selected items from the pages of Metal Progress, the monthly magazine of ASM International from 1930 to 1986.
60 years ago ...
July 1946: This [new] Cleveland laboratory [of Aluminum Co. of America] is responsible for two of the many subdivisions of research work undertaken by Alcoa. One ... devotes itself to foundry and forge plant alloys and practices, whereas the other devotes itself to the improvement of the product and the development of new uses.... [T]he problem of new uses can be illustrated by the extensive work on gas engines with engine block and cylinder head of alloy formulated from aircraft scrap, pistons and connecting rods of alloys ...