Aluminum and Its Applications

New York: Pitman Pub. Corp, [1948]. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo in blue cloth boards with silver stamping; xiii, 338 pages illustrations, portraits; index; 24 cm Near fine to very good (+); boards a tad foxed at top and lightly edgeworn; neat ink prior owner inscription to front pastedown; pages are clean if slightly edge-toned; tight and clean otherwise. Hardcover.

Hiram Brown is identified as "resident chief metallurgist at the solar aircraft company Des Moines plant". Intended for the layperson with numerous illustrations and simple sketches, this book addresses "the fundamental properties of aluminum alloys and their general usage" in the first eight chapters, then moves onto eight discussions by experts of aluminum's applications in "aircraft assemblies, aircraft engines, aircraft castings, automotive manufacture, railroads, marine assmeblies, electrical appliances and equipment, and the chemical industries. The last chapter discusses the present and future of aluminum." " --Preface.