#aluminum
We made a tailstock threading die holder tool for the mini lathe!
Making handwheels for the mini-lathe!
The first casting didn’t come out perfect, but we managed to make it work, and cast a second handwheel to go along with it!
Some good ol’ backyard lost-foam aluminum casting!
Is this the most improvised way to melt and cast aluminum ever!
We attempted to make a furnace out of a flowerpot!
Chantal Barlow (Portuguese-African-American, b. 1987, El Paso, TX, USA, based Los Angeles, CA, USA) - Feminina, 2014, Paintings: Acrylic on Aluminum
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Some views of the latest Standard 4x5 prototype. We’ve found a better source for the nylon in a darker grey, the aluminum is now anodized, and some other features have been improved/added! www.standardcameras.com
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@blueriverdream with rose 8x10 wet plate on aluminium
By William Lawrence 2016
This was a beautifully productive day. With much assistance from the @hankinspatty and if course the kitties :)
#blueriverdream #wetplatecollodion #aluminum #wetplate
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Studio Swine (Super Wide Interdisciplinary New Explorers) is an Anglo-Japanese design studio making extraordinary projects around the world which examines the role of design in the modern day, the power of the vernacular and the future of resources in luxury design. In their latest project, Can city, the duo has created a collection of aluminum furniture from the street materials of Sao Paulo.
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So, the history of the word aluminum (American spelling, since I’m American) is pretty boring. Sir Humphry Davy (If you think you have a bad name…) coined it himself in 1812, from aluma, the name for what we now call aluminum oxide (from alum, meaning, more less, bitter salt).
The interesting part comes in with the pronunciation. Americans say aluminum. English people say aluminium. Why?
The word, with the aluminum spelling, was premiered in Chemical Philosophy, a book by Davy, in 1812. But, then, that same year, someone reviewing Davy’s book anonymously objected to the spelling, proposing a new one, so that the new chemical would match other chemicals, like potassium and ammonium.
Aluminium, for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound.
This new spelling took off, and by now aluminium is by far the more common spelling of the word.
But in America, the aluminum spelling remains strong, thanks largely in part to Charles Martin Hall. Hall invented a much quicker and easier way of producing aluminum in 1884. While Hall preferred the aluminium spelling, in advertisements he misspelled it aluminum, and inadvertently popularized the spelling throughout America.
Now, while almost the entire English-speaking world says aluminium because of one guy’s book review, America still says aluminum because of one guy’s fuckup.
Apropo of nothing, Charles Martin Hall was kind of a looker, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Ben Schumacher, New York City Farm Tower: Peter Friel, Rochelle Goldberg, Jason Matthew Lee, Michael Pollard, Jared Madere, Andy Schumacher, Lillian Paige Walton, Jonathan Gean, Eric Schmid, Jonas Asher, Rachelle Rahme, Lauren Burns-Coady, Elaine Cameron Weir, Jenny Cheng, and Heinrike Klinger, 2015
Glass, aluminum, cork spacers, glass carboys, plastic carboys, beer brewing supplies, sla 3D prints, steel 3D prints, laser-cut leather, model farm animals, malt extract, brewing cleanser packages, brewing wort, police scanner, permanent marker, vinyl stickers, rubber stoppers, airlocks; 59.5″ × 80″ × 24″ (151.1 cm × 203.2 cm × 61 cm)
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