The story of Pittsburgh: Diversified products

Diversified products (Vol. 1, nr. 13)

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 183162365X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-241129

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Diversified products

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 13

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: [ca. 80] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Aluminum company of America

Collection:: Economics Books

Associated with natural gas is petroleum, and Pittsburgh has always been one of the most important centers for the development of oil fields. Our booklets have given in detail the rise and progress of the oil and gas development, the particulars of which have greatly surprised people who thought themselves thoroughly familiar with the great oil and gas industry. Without coal it would have been impossible for the iron and steel and oil and gas industries to start and grow, for this form of fuel is of vital importance, and it is no wonder that the First National Bank’s booklet on Coal had a wide reading. Many other Pittsburgh industries have been discussed, cne of the businesses perhaps less known but of great im- portance, being Radium, which formed the subject of a booklet. Then came Food Products; the extent of Pitts- burgh’s interest in the production, preservation and distri- sition of food making a booklet of decided importance In the present issue a number of “Diversified Products” of Pittsburgh and its environs are discussed, with particu- lars of the origin of the businesses, the location and cost of the plants, the officers of the concerns, and the number of men emploved in the several businesses ALUMINUM COMPANY OF AMERICA There is a wonderful romance about aluminum, the silver-white metal of extreme lightness, familiar to all, through its use in the manufacture of domestic articles, as well as in articles which are not often seen about the house. Not every one, however, knows that aluminum is the most common element in nature, with the exception of oxygen and silicon. About 89, of the earth’s crust is aluminum, and it is twice as plentiful in nature as iron, for it occurs in many minerals, clays and earths, but no process has yet been discovered of extracting the metal from common clay, although chemists have heen working on the problem for vears.

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