Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/09

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Subject: [Leica] Alumin(i)um
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 16:14:29 -0400
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At 12:40 PM 5/9/2001 -0700, Robert Martin wrote:
>
>Did ALCOA even exist in 1867? 

I was off a bit on the year.  But, for the exciting tale of Charles Martin
Hall and alumin(i)um, see

http://www.alcoa.com/site/company/history/history.asp

This took me all of 20 seconds on the Web to find.  Are your fingers broken?

Marc

msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
In reply to: Message from "Sonny Carter" <sonc@sonc.com> (Re: [Leica] Canadian lenses (now aluminxxxx))
Message from Ray Moth <ray_moth@yahoo.com> (RE: [Leica] Canadian lenses)