Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-08
A TON OF ALUMINIUM,
Together With Various Manufactured Arti.
cIes Made From This MetnI-Display


cIes Made From This MetnI-Display
of the Pittsburg Reduction Company.
A unique spectacle for the world and the
largest single exhibit of aluminium ever
shown is now in Mechanical Hall. Last
evening the members of the Pan-American
Congress gave evidence of surprise at the
most unusual sight which greeted them at
this space. The Pittsburg Reduction Com
pany are to be congratulated upon che pro-
found impression they produced.
In the front of their space were piled ingots
of aluminium weighing about five pounds
apiece, and measuring 6xl2 inches, aggre-
eating one ton in weight, the most ponderous
mass of pure aluminium ever brought to-
gether in one collection. D.
The company has also on view huge ingot
containing one cubic foot, measuring II
inches across the top and something over
inches thick, weighing $50 pounds. If it
were lead of the same proportions it would
weigh 700 pounds.
MANUFACTURED ARTICLES.
A showcase contains aluminium in very
many thickuesses of sheet metal, including
their printed business cards, rolled to the
thinness of 6-ten-thousandths of an inch,
and books of hammered foil thin as gold
leaf for signs and very many decorative
purposes. The steamer Puritan, of the Fall
River Line, running on Long Island Sound,
has the ceiling of its grand saloon orna-
mented with the foil and powder of alum
mum.
Specimen spoons, knives. forks and other
tableware of the metal In beautiful designs,
backs Of brushes, toilet accessories, various
sections of wire in lengths of several hun
nd of
watch cases, match safes, fine wheels tor
watches and other light machinery; also
beautiful frame of buttons for military,
secret society and livery service, all ex-
emplifv the uses to which this metal can be
applied. It takes a most brilliant polish
like silver, but never furnishes as the latter
is apt to do when subjected to chemical
action or atmospheric influences. Aluminium
is non-corrosive and is fast coming into uses
heretofore relegated to sterling silver.
Some medals are also shown in various
designs. and if time had permitted new
die would have been struck for the members
of the Pan-American Congress, as the COM
pany had orders to have them prepared
The company's improved methods of re-
ducing this metal have greatly lessened the
cost of its production, which has resulted in
an immense increase in the demand for it in
the commercial world, and has led to its
adoption for purposes formerly considered
impracticable.
EXPERIMENTS IN WELDING,
The Thomson Houston Electrical Weld
ing Company have experimental consider
ably with the Pittsburg Reduction Com
pany's aluminium, and find no difficulty in
welding it.
1.-The Thomson Welding Company" are
receiving inquiries from many sources all
over the country for welding aluminium, and
are now ready to undertake to weld the
metal themselves or rent machines for this
work.
LOCATION.
"The Pittsburg Reduction Company"
have their Office at 95 Fifth avenue, in the
Schmidt building. Their works are on
Smallman street, between Thirty-second and
Thirty-third streets, Pittsburg, Pa.