Aluminum Was Once More Precious Than Gold | History for Sleep

Aluminum Was Once More Precious Than Gold In 1852 aluminum sold at thirty-four dollars an ounce; the official price of gold was twenty dollars sixty-nine. In 1855 a bar of it was exhibited beside the French crown jewels. In 1884 the whole world made three point six tons, and the largest piece ever cast went on display at Tiffany's before being set on top of the Washington Monument. Then two men aged twenty-two and twenty-three, one in a woodshed in Ohio and one in Normandy, found the same trick two months apart, and the price fell by a factor of two hundred. With the price series year by year, and where the most famous story about the metal actually comes from. CHAPTERS 00:00 Everywhere, and Never Seen 04:37 Thirty-Six Thousand Francs 08:13 Silver from Clay, Beside the Crown Jewels 10:15 Thirty-Four Dollars an Ounce 13:02 Gold, Silver, or Vermeil 16:10 Six Pounds at Tiffany's 17:56 Two Thousand and Seventy-Two Degrees 21:16 Twenty-Two and Twenty-Three 26:24 The Dye Chemist in Saint Petersburg 28:38 Four Eighty-Six to Twenty Cents 32:20 Harder on Monday Than on Friday 34:39 Rhine Falls, Niagara Falls MUSIC Concentration by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... IMAGE CREDITS - Creative Commons Attribution These images require attribution under their licence: Pisolitic bauxite 4.jpg by James St. John - CC BY 2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Pisolitic bauxite (Alcoa Bauxite Mine, Arkansas, USA) 1.jpg by James St. John - CC BY 2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Pisolitic bauxite (Alcoa Bauxite Mine, Arkansas, USA) 2.jpg by James St. John - CC BY 2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Crown jewels of France (30294436585).jpg by Mario Leonardo Iñiguez - CC BY 2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Pisolitic bauxite (Alcoa Bauxite Mine, Arkansas, USA) 3.jpg by James St. John - CC BY 2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Pisolitic bauxite (Alcoa Bauxite Mine, Arkansas, USA) 5.jpg by James St. John - CC BY 2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Pisolitic bauxite (Alcoa Bauxite Mine, Arkansas, USA) 4.jpg by James St. John - CC BY 2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Cryolite, Siderite, Chalcopyrite-1160192.jpg by Charlie Smith - CC BY 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Cryolite, Siderite, Chalcopyrite-1160191.jpg by Charlie Smith - CC BY 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Alcoa-tennessee-tower2.jpg by Brian Stansberry - CC BY 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Potassium-2.jpg by Unknown authorUnknown author - CC BY 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Aluminum ingots at Norwegian Aluminium Company.jpg by Anders Beer Wilse - CC BY 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... St. Claire Deville giving a lecture. Wellcome M0008828.jpg by unknown - CC BY 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville. Wood engraving, 1879 (? Wellcome V0005180.jpg by unknown - CC BY 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Henri Sainte-Claire Deville demonstrating an experiment in t Wellcome V0006859.jpg by unknown - CC BY 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Alcoa-plant-tower-NW-tn2.jpg by Brian Stansberry - CC BY 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Churchill Falls Generating Station.jpg by Quintin Soloviev - CC BY 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... PUBLIC DOMAIN / CC0 (34 images, no attribution required) Sourced from Wikimedia Commons. Full list with links is in the project repository. DIAGRAMS 3 diagrams drawn for this video. This video uses a synthetic voice. The "altered or synthetic content" disclosure has been ticked in YouTube Studio.