HOW IT'S MADE: Aluminum
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- The industrial production of aluminium is shown explaining it's elemental properties, ore mining, extrusions, fabrication, and manufacturing of products by factory workers such as bars, ingots, rods, sheets, foil, beams, and wire.
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Everything ever, needs to be explained with this production method.
The reason foil is dull on one side and shiny on the other, because they have to run two sheets at a time to get it thin enough. The sides that touch the rollers get shiny, it's not made that way on purpose, it's just part of the manufacturing process.
I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing!
wow
Also it doesn't matter which side is facing the food when used for cooking. Both sides reflect heat (infra red) with the same efficiency.
@@amanofmanyparts9120 oh really? I heard Gordon Ramsey say otherwise. Is he fooling?
@@divinegon4671 No idea why he should claim that as it's been proven that the slight imperfections on the 'dull' side are too small to affect the longer wavelengths of infrared radiation.
Probably just displaying his omnipotence and infinite knowledge of all things.
it's amazing that with less resources for video editing, filming and such they could explain this process better in 10 minutes that they can do now in 30, 40 minutes in recent documentaries
Yep, these days every one likes to drag everything out so they can hear themselves talk, share their opinions, and see how much attention they can get. The days of legitimate documentaries are sadly over.
a lot of effort
Because kaiser aluminum gave nice funding to make this video good
@@danny-li6io I tell myself all the time, people will overthink and over complicate anything and everything in effort to be the smartest one in the room.
It seems like the narrator narrated all of the films in the 50’s. His voice is so familiar and ubiquitous.
Uncredited cast member of _Mystery Science Theater 3000._
The Narrator sounds like Peter Graves, brother of James Arness.
Christopher Noel what does this mean? I love that show
@@v1ncepupp1o7: You know, when MST3K would show shorts before the main film. Thus, suggesting a similarity between this narrator and the one narrating the shorts on MST3K. :)
It's actually called the 'mid atlantic accent' and they trained people to talk like that back then. It's not a regional accent, it was specifically designed because people thought it sounded classy.
How many of you felt like u were back n grade school watching the old projector screens??
Chalk board?
WHATS A CHALK BOARD?
What are educational films? .=.
I’m doing both😂
They don’t have the new generation video for this 😂
putting rabbit ears on everything
I know the manufacturing technology in this video is very dated, but the video is a great example of how complex it can be to create something "simple" like aluminum. Most people have no clue how in-depth the infrastructure of the U.S. industrial base is.
In the 1800s aluminium used to be deemed a precious metal due to the difficulty and cost to extract it. It even used to be more expensive than gold
@@jamiehughes5573so is this the old process that made it so expensive or is this the new process
These old educational movies remind me of the old get together in the school gymnasium with a couple of other classes ...and watch these educational movies ....miss those days.....
Yes! Like when it was raining out and there was no recess. We would watch stuff like this in the classroom!
Why is this so easy to comprehend? Takes me back to my days in elementary school.
There is a kaiser aluminum plant in washington state still up and running this is pretty awesome to see how they did it back in the day. Actually work there and it has came a long way since then but the tech was pretty good back then great video
...and twenty years later, the aluminum electrical
ground wires for all that infrastructure had to be dug out of the ground and replaced with copper.
I was curious when I saw that ibt. I take it aluminum isn't as good a conductor as they thought, compared to ye ol' copper?
@@SerunaXI It's actually due to welding. Aluminum wire is actually pretty decent, but when it's welded to copper wires, it corrodes more easily. Also, while metallic aluminum is conductive, aluminum oxide (formed on the surface of aluminum in the presence of air) is an insulator. This means that if the contacts (between the wires and other components) aren't made properly, the aluminum can oxidize, greatly reducing conductivity.
Aluminum is still a far worse conductor
It isn’t as good as copper for sure. With service wires for a house or business you have to use aluminum that is one size larger than if you’re using copper. The oxidation at connections is also an issue, electrical code has required a non-oxidation compound to be used for some time now. I’m an electrician and we install aluminum for larger conductors all the time due to price. That said I would always prefer copper for everything in my home.
The only thing better than copper for electrical conductivity is gold and silver but that's too expensive.
I was thinking about turning on the lights when it was over.
Back when America invested in America and took pride in their accomplishments.
Black people invented everything we use today. From aluminum to space travel
@@blacklivesmatter2083 That was random. Actually Rockets and space travel came from the Nazis unfortunately
@@DJBigRick870 First man on da moon was a black man named Tyrone. Him and his boyzzz Durag and lil Uzi wuz da first crips on da Apollo mission
Black HISTORY
Man, this was made way before my time, but somehow feels homely
Very old-timey
Peak American exceptionalism.
@@mikem9374Demographics.
Why dont they show this in schools it would definitely be a hit and wouldn't bore the children to sleep. Awesome upload.
They mentioned Kaiser Aluminum, I live near the old factory, been shut down for years. All processing has been shipped over seas.
All hail the Chinese for smelting aluminum alloy at a loss
@@wizard_of_poz4413 War costs money no matter how you go about it. If it means weakening an enemy by making them dependent, then the cost is perhaps justified.
Wow, never realised it was such a complicated process.
This is why the process of turning bauxite into aluminum is so expensive. Recycling used aluminum is something like 80% more cost effective. The biggest issue at the moment for recycling aluminum is that there a plethora of alloys and they tend to get mixed in the recycling process.
Plethora. Nice word
Aluminum is one of the more abundant resources on Earth. It's also compicated to extract. It's why we didn't experience an "Aluminum" age until recenltly, which itself pretty much got rolled into the Nuclear Age.
@@jdl7666 Three amigos?
Plethora i love this word for some reason I really don't use it much anymore not sure why. Might need to resurrect it
brilliant, clearly communicated and illustrated
Boomers: "Why is everything so political today?!"
Videos from when they were kids: *randomly interrrupts the fascinating aluminum manufacturing process to talk about how great capitalism is*
Right--like Communists can't make aluminum!
@@lawsonj39 like communists don't constantly broadcast to their populace how important communism is.
It wasn't random at all. The facility required huge investments to get going and it is explained in the video that it was provided by private investors.
@@kr854 And that's why they also went on similar tangents about the formation of the ore they mined, and the design of the ship used to haul that ore, the scientific history of aluminum, etc., right?
@@ComradePhoenix You're reaching and hard. It was related to the topic. The kind of "politics in everything" some people are complaining about is when it has no connections to the topic.
What gets me is how complex some things were and how educated some were to find ways of doing things, such as this and many other things 100+ years ago, but didnt think hand washing was necessary because they couldnt see any germs...
The discovery of Aluminum is almost 200 years ago, as it was discovered in 1825. Germ theory was accepted as scientific theory in 1890. So it is plausible to argue that some of these scientists did indeed believe in germs existing and proper hygiene
www.chemicool.com/elements/aluminum.html
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/listers-antisepsis-system
Well, to be fair you need an electron microscope to see a virus, and that didn't come along until the era of quantum physics in the 1920s.
But our ancestors were not dumb. medical instruments were often made of silver. Why? because silver kills pathogens via the oligodynamic effect while being non-toxic to humans.
That's also why the rich ate food with silverware made of real silver. No fancy chemicals to get rid of all the germs, the silver did that.
It is also probably the origin of the folk tale that throwing coins into a well brought good luck. Copper and silver coins both release ions that kill germs.
High standards for quality control was a thing. Now we the consumer are their free quality control.
Oh do shut up
Wdym
All companies think about is the customer, otherwise they'd be out of business🤦♂️
Aluminum brake drums, I wonder how that worked out for them...Lol!
I believed worked better than cast steel!
There actualy quite comon but their steel lined
Same way aluminum engine blocks work: you use a lining of steel on the abrasion surface and use the aluminum to carry the force of the load.
@My Name Correct. The drums had fins on the outside diameter to aid cooling. They are sort after to this day. They are efficient and cool quickly.
Fun to watch these and see which ideas worked/still work and which ones failed!
yes him I can understand. Used to spend years picking up aluminum can for quick cash. When it was .65cents a pound now not so much. Thank You Loader.
Watching this vid while conducting tensile tests on 2024-T42 aluminum sheet. Cool to see the backstory of its origin.
+blnstr Working with aluminum is something I do every day. I can relate, and I’m intrigued by the info in this classic vid... What’s your point?
this is 100% the same voice from that "the rocket knows where it is based on where it isn't" video.
Awww, I miss that voice, those cartoons - that explained/showed us everything when we were younger.
Is anyone else thinking of the “zinc” film from the Simpsons?
The animation should be used in schools and colleges.😅
Aluminium is my favourite but I never knew that it took so much processing
This is why recycling Aluminum is a big resource saver.
Somehow this documentary gives me hope in the world. haha I wish we could have more documentaries voiced by a guy like this nowadays.
harvard james haha indeed. Im a real sucker for that Mid-Atlantic accent also as well of those early 1920s which sojnd similar to this?
iPervy Welcome to the rare group of people who appreciate a good narration.
Sort of. By then more just evolution of style. Disembodied regal tone was the norm for announcers up till the seventies and is still used for gravitas and nostalgia. Method acting and the progression from the stage (vaudeville) to electronics permitted something other than the deep chested baritone to come across. In the first days they had to overcome (or felt they had to) the shortcomings of the gear but by the fifties it was just cause it sounded comfy. This is your Announcer speaking.
60.0 million tons a year are made all from the earths crust I wonder what effect that has on a metallic planet in space with a magnetic field and other invisible forces contributing to it's being. then add all other metals gold silver nickel copper iron .I'm not being morbid the video just raised questions for me I like money I just wish I had more
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jolly music
impurities, such as people living on the land, are separated from the bauxite through an iterative process of nudging.
jolly music continues
these old docs are great
Алюминий вообще потрясающий материал, выгодно отличается на фоне других металлов. А старые фильмы душевнее воспринимаются , у создателей был другой подход к работе и цели.
These animations are so charming
Like to learn that with explicite good vidéos, thanks.
its amazing how much science and intelligent minds it took to give us a pop can that we throw away in the trash when were done drinking its contents...
ally rim and brake drum in one, cant see how that could go wrong
Not to mention when you need a new drum you need a whole new rim. But clearly it didn't work. I think I have ever seen an aluminum brake drum ever.
At one time, people were humble and trustworthy aka, nice. Now people don't even know their neighbors and could care-less about them. I don't wanna go forward in time, but rather back to when people really loved one another!
Before this process was perfected pure aluminum was worth more than gold. The Washington Monument is topped with a small pyramidion of pure aluminum.
And to all you Brits complaining about its pronunciation, Humphrey Davy was hepped up on nitrous when he chose the name, so who cares.. 😬🇺🇸
That's true. I remember watching Antique Roadshow and a lady had brought in an ornate hairpin made out of aluminum. It was made before the process was perfected so it cost alot of money back then. The guy told them they had a nice piece however it wasnt worth much.
"Observing this tremendous mill in action, one can’t help but sense that here in this massive complexity is a symbol of the strength of the American private enterprise system. Operated by highly skilled workers the costly equipment is made possible through investment by thousands of stock holders. Men and women who believe that our American economic system can continue to produce more things for more people efficiently and without waste."
Oh how the mighty have fallen. I fear we've sold off our industrial might to the lowest bidder. If the US gets dragged into another world war I doubt we will have the ability to sustain.
"Oh how the mighty have fallen. I fear we've sold off our industrial might to the lowest bidder."
Ya, corporations want cheap labor. This is capitalism. It is a double-edge sword. Great for consumers. Terrible for workers.
@@yarnosh the culprit is not greedy corporations alone. Look at the govt first, for every action there is an equal an opposite reaction. I guarantee that every company leaving American shores is preceded by some idiotic govt regulation. The federal govt is full of incompetent and evil grifters.
@@tylerdurden4080 While there certainly exist idiotic regulations, at a fundamental level though they are necessary and beneficial to the worker. Minimum wage laws, workplace safety, environmental protection... these all drive jobs overseas, but you would not want to work in or live near those factories. Left entirely to their own devices and motivations, corporations would tend towards literal slave labor belching God knows what into the environment. Only government regulations and unions can keep that in check. Lifting those regulations just to keep a company from movign would be a mistake. We need to support the places the companies are moving to in adopting similar regulations so that there's no place to find slave labor.
Unfortunately most Americans don't want to pay the price for 100% domestic goods produced under good working conditions.
@@yarnosh one day you're going to look back on what you believed to be good governance and your going to realize how foolish you were. Unfortunately for you and I we will all suffer mightily because of our poor choices.
@@tylerdurden4080
I've already looked back. And history says I'm right.
Sounds like you can't actually articulate an argument against what I said. You can't trust corporations to have your best interests as a worker OR a consumer in mind. They care about profit and nothing else. Regulation is absolutely essential to protect workers, consumers, and the environment from pure greed. Greed is NOT good.
The industrial revolution in America is full of examples of workers (many of them children) subject the worst conditions for minimal compensation. And that was a step up from the very literal slavery before that.
The simple reality is that people like you are more than happy to buy cheap products made by slave labor overseas. You can blame regulation all you want, but in the end people want their goods cheap. And paying workers a livign wage isn't cheap.
Imagine being the person who thought of doing all those steps. Just imagine.
Also, just imagine if Jamaicans had got rich from their Aluminum.
2 people Hall and Heroult who's process of manufacture is named after. Also, aluminum is so common you can go to your backyard, get a bucket and refine at least a few ounces everywhere in the world. Even then it would have been undercut from most of the northern part of Australia being made out of bauxite.
Do you yanks refer to it as “aluminum” on the periodic table as well?
there is no "ium" in the word....
I'm retired from Kaiser aluminum in Heath Ohio. It is an amazing process.
Molten metals are cool so pure in liquid form and it is amazing what humans do with it.
Aluminum wiring. Excellent.
6:50 can't be complete without a plug for American capitalism.
"the highly skilled workers" - none wearing safety equipment.
These days, it's a Chinese factory or if it's in America it's a bunch of mexicans
Back before unions got gutted and a basic worker could get a livable wage
Of course, It was the Cold War.
@@Daedric16 how so
Fascinating.
"Laughs in satisfactory"
To be honest, I kinda wish Satisfactory was this complex
@@Ben-Hollingbery I don't - the game can barely handle what players can already do with it.
Wow this makes me wonder how old is "how its made" this is awesome
Where do you get all these old documentaries
Obviously you’re not a golfer
the duderino grandmas attic.. on the left, in an old dusty trunk. Your welcome 🙃
School
Right when the video got interesting 3d wise, of course it cut out. Thank you for this either way, informal for sure.
I wish everything was explained this way!
Hard to imagine ALCOA doesn’t smelt in the USA anymore. Good job at Rockdale. Miss those days. Never see jobs like this again; graduate on Saturday, start work on Monday, earn a decent wage to support a family & retire twenty or thirty years later.
Awesome, thanks for uploading this!
We put a fantastic amount of aluminum into landfills. We may have to mine them someday.
Why? Aluminium is the third most abundant element in the Earth's crust.
Excellent explanation. Nice seeing my man at 2:47 siphon off a ladle of liquid aluminum at well over 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit WITH HIS FREAKING MOUTH!
How did they figure out how to do this the first time?
I wonder if this is how it's still processed?
Very much the same.. But more Automated.. Less workers..
The same, but much more expensive because "safety".
When was this video made?
1958?
Makes you wonder who casually stumbled across aluminium ?
Alum was used as far back as the Greeks for dyes, large quantities of alum are found in western Egypt.
Attempts to make metal aluminum date back to 1760. In 1825, a Danish physicist/chemist had isolated aluminum.
From 1856 to 1890, industrial production of aluminum began.
After WW1, it became obvious that air power was going to be pivotal to future warfare, and in the development of an all metal plane, Germans developed the first aerospace alloy; duralumin (2000 series)
And all this because someone came across some white and clear crystals and thought "what can I do with these?"
I wonder how many of those facilities are still in operation.
They’re all in China now.
@@JimmieJoeSparky WRONG well, maybe not completely. Aluminium is produced where electricity is the cheapest, like in Iceland.
There is a plant in washington state I actually work there still goin strong too at that but yeah not all in china that's for sure !
@@kylesmith1832 What type of power plant do you have over there?
Natural gas
this reminds me of the movie The Iron Giant, one of my favorite movies growing up. ima go watch it right now.
I love this! Just learned about this in my materials introductory course. When was this video made?
I reckon 1955
Sounds 'bout right.
Tony Samson 🤣
Sonny Latchstring 👍
Well you can tell it’s safe because the workers in the videos are cartoon characters, they are pretty delicate compared to a regular person. So if a cartoon character can safely do it then it’s 100% completely safe to people. Just look at the Rodger rabbit movie... those cartoons safely did all the dangerous stunts in that
What I’d like to know is who or what group of ppl came up with the original concept of extracting aluminum from red dirt basically. How did this person or persons know the aluminum was in the bauxite. I believe the discovery of aluminum came about in the 18th or 19th century. And it wasn’t like this stuff was just lying around as nuggets. That discovery is an amazing thing to me!
Alcoa has a similar yet more in depth video
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What is the degree of purity of aluminum oxide required to form bauxite in the ore?
My buddy’s dad was the project manager of the aluminum plant in Jamaica
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Old is gold.
...and that's why war, war never changes.
I'm a simple man. I see a Fallout-related comment, I hit the Like button.
So how is aluminum a metal if it’s a byproduct?
Or am I missing something.
how long ago was this aluminum factorey making aluminum
Valeu Doc Tube , Tmj 😎
And the waste products are poured into our water supply.
Nice information
Aluminum is an element. Aluminum things can be made. Aluminum can be purified or refined as it is called. Aluminum alloys can be made. We don't make elements until you get way up in the periodic table.
Shutterstock: 500k hits? We should buy this vid ASAP... or just knock it off.....
Love it!
Mid 1950's the world produced around 3 million metric tons of aluminium. Now the number is around 60 million metric tons.
Why cant all how its made docs have 60s style cartoons? Ahhh when America was America... I love it...i miss it
And we all know what changed when you look and you see that there aren't any factory workers that look like that any more. Instead of looking like Sean Connery all the factory workers look like Mr worldwide or Fucking Ice T.
Ok, next time can you show how aluminium is made ?
What year is this?
“This refining and processing of the aluminum is a very energy intensive process. But thankfully the power is provided by extremely safe and clean unlimited nuclear power which is extremely safe and super clean... and safe. The super safe and clean energy of the future! It’s safe and clean.... 100% safe! ....safe...”
Check the industrial disasters that have taken many 1000s of lives due to failures of any other type of energy producing plants including breaching of dam walls plus the incredibly higher environmental impacts of the said construction not to mention their way lower productivity mister sarcastic.
Well in nuclear's defense, all its done is render a 2600km2 area uninhabitable, and create an alarming but ultimately not catastrophic radiation poisoning of the pacific ocean.
Coal is basically the backbone of the carbon emissions climate disaster, and is responsible for the deaths of *millions* of people either through reduction of life of working with coal without sufficient protections, or indirectly through air pollution.
Even if you include the casualties of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, nuclear is pretty darn safe by comparison.
@@HgHg-yp6ft but that’s why they make those industrial sites. They make them so the disasters can happen there and not at the nuclear power plants. It’s worked for over a thousand years and not once has an accident happens at a nuclear site. It actually strengthens the workers at these nuclear sites! My uncle worked there for 15 years before dying at the ripe old age of 52
thank you
How the hell did we figure this out?
Trial and error. It was a Dane who first found out how to get aluminum isolated as a metal, but there had already been made years of research into it. Science is really just getting an idea about something, then calculating your ingredients to avoid major damages to you and your surroundings, before mixing them together and see what happens. Then write it down, think about what caused what to happen, make some adjustments and repeat.
Damn, they don’t make movies like this anymore...
It doesn't mention who first discovered the process.
Was this made in the 1950’s? It looks like it.
Sound like Fallout manual :)
What year is this
Nice video for it's purpose, but it's somewhat out-of-date.
I feel like they use to go in to the processes more back then now it like they process the dirt in to aluminum thank you for watching lol
We also manufacture aluminum materials in Pakistan.
Jeez, I hope it's a lot easier to process raw aluminum these days.
I have bauxite 70 percent but i dont know how electrolysis plant make can any one help me
Amazing. How the hell did we know how to do that?
Aliens...
By learning from other refining processes, small scale testing and many hours of dedicated work done by very intelligent people.
Also available from other countries.
Lol. 2:47 guy just uses his mouth to siphon red hot aluminum like it's gasoline or something. 🤣
Molten aluminum, also known as Spicy Silver Milk
Why don't they make videos like this anymore?? 50s60s we're truly progressive.. 3d printable parts is the only progressive technically we have these days.
The 70s and 80s saw the widespread implementation of CNC machines. Also, 3D printing of metal and plastics started in the 70s.
The 90s saw implementation of increased automation through robotics, as well as metal sintering processes (turning metal powder into solid products)
The 00s saw implementation of more advanced programming and efficient manufacturing, as well as advances in additive manufacturing.
And the 2010s saw levels of automation that only ever existed in scifi before.
Not sure why you're suggesting we haven't been "truly progressive" since then. We've been making fast progress in every direction.
i legit thought the goofy voice and background tunes were a joke, like a cute little intro but nope, that's what we're going with
This country used to make things.