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Aluminum alloys

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Analysis of an aluminum alloy notebook: Notebook of Warren G. Schlinger

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-525
Scope and content

This is a school type notebook containing five pages of writings and two small black-and-white photographs. The entries are dated June 8, June 12 and June 24, 1942. The notebook details two experiments carried out by Warren G. Schlinger on aluminum alloys and Tintex dye at the end of his sophomore year at Cal Tech.

Dates: 1942

Records of the Burman-Rennerfelt acid aluminia process

 Collection
Identifier: 2000-039
Abstract

This is a collection and primary and secondary source materials concerning a new method for refining alumina from clays. The method was patented and proved successful but failed to catch on due to cost factors. Collection includes Correspondence, technical data and schematics relating to the refining of alumina.

Dates: 1932-1954; Majority of material found within 1932-1937