Starbuck3733T
29th March 2004, 16:05
Found this tidbit this morning in the comments of a 'life in 1904' article (http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=41362) linked from ArsTechnica's frontpage (Which I was reading because the forum is down!).
In the days of America's golden age, this part of the country was certainly prominent. George Westinghouse and his associate for a short while, Nikola Tesla, began the transformation of industry with electricity. Scaifes & Hillmans empire of coal fueled the power plants and the steel mills. Hall perfected the electrochemical purification of aluminum that became Alcoa....and "aluminium" became "aluminum" because Hall's sister watched the pennies so closely that she kept the stationary with the misspelling "aluminum" in the letterhead.
Blame teh womenz! :lol:
In the days of America's golden age, this part of the country was certainly prominent. George Westinghouse and his associate for a short while, Nikola Tesla, began the transformation of industry with electricity. Scaifes & Hillmans empire of coal fueled the power plants and the steel mills. Hall perfected the electrochemical purification of aluminum that became Alcoa....and "aluminium" became "aluminum" because Hall's sister watched the pennies so closely that she kept the stationary with the misspelling "aluminum" in the letterhead.
Blame teh womenz! :lol: