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Price charts and trends (Elements).

 File — Box: 0078.23, Folder: 04
Identifier: 0078.23.04

Scope and Contents

Average Yearly Prices for Selected Metals for 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940 and 1943 Relative Corrodibility of Some Common Metals and Alloys Exhibit II Typical Properties & Characteristics of Industrial Materials Exhibit #1 Various Materials Ratio of Tensile Strength to Specific Gravity World Industrial and Metal Production 1880-1938 ALCOA Mill Cost of Rolling ALCOA – ALMINUM Yearly Cost Figures – Pig & Ingot “Cents per Pound” Dried Bauxite Equivalent Shipped from Mines in U.S. Elements of Cost in the Reduction of Aluminum Estimated Annual Capacity of Alumina Plants Estimated Uses of Aluminum Alloys by Industry Groups List of Important Plants for the Fabrication of Aluminum and their Products Exhibit VI Power Requirements for Aluminum and Other Electrolytic or Electrothermal Operations Price Trends in Aluminum, Copper & Steel 1921-1942 Primary Aluminum Production Facilities in the U.S. Production of Primary Aluminum in the U.S. by Decades, 1890 to 1939, and Annually from 1937-1945 Reynolds Metals Co. and ALCOA’s Production and Fabricating Plants Summary of Aluminum Rolling Mills and Fabricating Plants by Product Classifications and Their Estimated Present Capacities in Comparison With Estimated Brass Mill Capacities U.S. Production of Primary and Secondary Aluminum and Imports and Exports of Aluminum and Total Available Supply World Bauxite Production and Percentage Analysis Thereof by Leading Countries for Selected Years from 1920 to 1940 Brass Industry Output of Mill Products Years 1934-1942 in Comparison with Estimated Productive Capacity in October 1942 Brass Mill Shipments, 1926-1942 Compared with Industry Owned Casting Capacity in 1942 Investment in Plant Facilities Selected Companies in Brass Industry Copper Export and Import Balance, 1911-1940 Cost of Copper Content of Typical Electrical Household Appliances Based on Prices in effect in January 1940 Estimated Use of Copper in the United States Exhibit 5 Estimated Uses of Copper by Industries “By Percentage” Fluctuations in Price of Electrolytic Copper at New York 1919-1941 Share of World Production of Copper Controlled by United States Companies and Subsidiaries Selected Years 1925 to 1937 Total and Percapita Domestic Consumption of Copper – Federal Reserve Board’s Index of Industrial Product’n United States Production of Primary & Secondary Copper 1912-1938 Exhibit IV World Production of “Copper” by Major Divisions 1912-1938 Exhibit III Magnesium: Elements of Cost “Chloride or Electrolytic Process” Estimated Magnesium Production Capacity Estimated Use of Magnesium in Selected Years 1929 – 1940 Magnesium Found in Potash Salt By-Products Metallic Content of Magnesium Ores and Raw Materials Output of Primary Magnesium in the U.S. 1928 to 1943 Price Trend of Magnesium Ratings of Magnesium Fabricating Processes World Production of Magnesium Metal in 1929 & 1933, Estimated Production in 1940, and Tentative Estimate for 1943 Cost of Various Plastic Materials Estimated Consumption of Plastics by End Use and Estimated Capacity of the Industry Plastic Materials – Estimated Sales By Producers Plastics – Brief Classified Representation Plastics – Comparative Costs Plastics – Relative Value of Output in 1941 Properties of Various Types of Plastics Exhibit VII Relative Strengths of Synthetic Resin Bonded Plywoods & Various Metals Sales of Synthetic Resins 1921-1941 Types of Resins Going to Various End Uses Figure #1 World Output of Principal Industrial Metals Figure #2 United States Output of Principal Industrial Metals Figure #3 Production of Primary Copper in U.S. in Comparison with World Output Figure #4 Total Production of Smelting and Concentrating Ores in the U.S. and Percentage Yield of Copper, 1912 to 1940 Figure #5 Estimated Reserves of Major Copper Producing Properties Figure #6 U.S. Production of Primary and Secondary Copper in Relation to Estimated Consumption Selected Years 1912 to 1940 Figure #7 Refined Copper Production, Exports, Imports, Consumption and Stocks on Hand in U.S., 1910 to 1940 Figure 8 World Summary of Copper 1912 – 1939 – Prices Figure 9 Output of Aluminum Sheet by Aluminum Co. of America and Independent Fabricators 1926-1939 Figure #10 Summary of Profit & Loss Statement Aluminum Company of America for 1939 (Sales to Outside Customers)

Dates

  • Creation: 1928-1959

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection housed remotely. Users need to contact 24 hours in advance.

Extent

From the Collection: 22 Linear Feet (34 boxes, 2 oversize folders)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Lehigh University Special Collections Repository

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