Historic Cover Archive
1959 to 1957
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December 1959 Caption: Laminating Alcoa aluminum foil with celanese acetate plastic sheet at Trio Mills Mnfg. Corp., New York. The product will be used for ironing boards.

October 1959 Caption: Titanium access panel for covering engine in the DC-8. (Photo courtesy: Titanium Metals Corporation.)

August 1959 Caption: Operator at Kaiser Aluminum's Ravenswood Plant tiers coils with Heppenstall coil tongs.

June 1959 Caption: No caption.

April 1959 Caption: Separation of aluminum foil after "pack rolling" operation at Anaconda Aluminum Company plant in Louisville, Kentucky.

February 1959 Caption: No caption.

December 1958 Caption: No caption.

October 1958 Caption: Pouring aluminum pig. (Photo courtesy Kaiser Aluminum.)

August 1958 Caption: This is believed to be the largest aluminum ring ever rolled. O.D. is 11.5 inches. I.D. 103.5 inches. It is 1.5 inches thick and of 6061-T6 alloy. Rolled by Standard Steel Works Div. Baldwin Lima Hamilton at Burnham, Pennsylvania.

June 1958 Caption: A worker at Ormet Corp. aluminum reduction plant breaks the crust of solidified electrolyte in reduction pot in order to add more alumina. One potline totaling 168 pots is now in production producing 100 tons of aluminum per day.

April 1958 Caption: Aluminum ingots being readied for rolling at Kaiser Aluminum's Mead plant.

February 1958 Caption: Heliwelding aluminum sections by means of a special fixture on the Titan ICBM at Martin Aircraft Company, Denver Colorado. (Photo courtesy Air Reduction Company.)

December 1957 Caption: Pouring aluminum into pig molds at Kaiser Aluminum's Chalmette, Louisiana, plant.

October 1957 Caption: Largest aluminum tee ever forged.

August 1957 Caption: Heli arc welding Earth satellite. (Photo courtesy Linde Air Products Co.)

June 1957 Caption: Partially formed titanium hat cover made from a heated blank. (Courtesy Boeing Airplane Co.)

April 1957 Caption: No caption.

February 1957 Caption: 8,000-pound aluminum extrusion billets. (Photo courtesy Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp.)
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