Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1895 — Uses of Aluminum. [ARTICLE]

Uses of Aluminum.

Aluminum is a most effective and useful agent in iron and steel castings. 1 It is usually added in proportion of i from mie-quarter to one pound to the ! ion of steel. the alsive being added as tlie steel is being poured into tlu> mokl, and the use of aluminum in cast iron is becoming more general as its advantages are appreciated. There are many reasons for this use of aluminum, but, briefly, it is instrumental in producing a sound ingot with a consequent decrease of senip or other loss, and as a result the sale of uiiiminnm ingots for this purpose has increased remarkably during the year. Tlie metal Is being nsisl largely in photographic instruments and electrical appliances. Large quantities of tlie metal have been and will lie devoted to a process for the purifying of water, known as the electro-alnin-inum process. It is being used also for artificial limits and surgical Instruments. The value of aluminum in army equipments Is practically reeognizisl in the construction of knapsacks, canteens, scabbards and buttons in short all articles carried by the sohlle.r in which aluminum muy tend to lessen lh<- weight to lie carried. Two out of the ten German army 1 corps are now entirely equipped with aluminum wherever its pri-nence is practical, and two others are now being si 111 ihl rI.V equipped Manufactures of projectiles of various kinds, cartridge shells mid Hindi*• manufactures, which up to the present Him* have been manufactured almost exclusively of brass, are now looking hopefully toward alnmliinm. It can lie positively said now-thae aluminum Is In competition with brass, and that the next year will show a very decided and rapid increase b« tlie use of aluminum for superseding' tho above metal.