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WearEver Cookware [2] helped aluminum consumption by introducing one of the first widely accepted and available aluminum based consumer products of their time. [3] Initially this cookware was sold door-to-door by college students and would later be purchased in large quantities by organizations. [ 3 ]
The "Magnalite" line of cast aluminum products was introduced in the early 1930s, made from a patented aluminum alloy. The company employed the industrial designer John Gordon Rideout to overhaul the design of Wagner's products in an effort to counter falling sales during the Great Depression. [4]
Charles Martin Hall (December 6, 1863 – December 27, 1914) was an American inventor, businessman, and chemist.He is best known for his invention in 1886 of an inexpensive method for producing aluminum, which became the first metal to attain widespread use since the prehistoric discovery of iron.
Kitchen utensils in bronze discovered in Pompeii. Illustration by Hercule Catenacci in 1864. Benjamin Thompson noted at the start of the 19th century that kitchen utensils were commonly made of copper, with various efforts made to prevent the copper from reacting with food (particularly its acidic contents) at the temperatures used for cooking, including tinning, enamelling, and varnishing.
[a] [b] It is possible aluminium-containing alloys were produced in China during the reign of the first Jin dynasty (266–420). [c] After the Crusades, alum was a commodity of international commerce; [9] it was indispensable in the European fabric industry. [10] Small alum mines were worked in Catholic Europe but most alum came from the Middle ...
Aluminum Manufacturers, Inc., based in Cleveland, Ohio, was a major producer of aluminum and brass materials in the early 20th century. The company was incorporated in November 1919, [ 1 ] absorbing The Aluminum Castings Company , a Detroit , Michigan company which had been incorporated in 1909. [ 2 ]
In August 1887, he moved the company to Fremont, Ohio, to be near an accessible, abundant supply of natural gas which had recently been discovered. [2] The gas was ideally suited to fuel the furnaces for the company's forges and foundry .
In 1957 shareholders approved a name change to the Mirro Aluminum Company. [10] In 1958, Mirro began manufacturing a line of 16 ft aluminum boats under the Mirro-Craft name. The boats, introduced at the Chicago National Boat Show in February of that year, were designed by naval architect David Beach.