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| One of the first major markets for aluminum at the end of the 19th century was wiring for the burgeoning electricity industry. Although aluminum is as a good a conductor as copper, it is much lighter; only half the weight of aluminum is needed to produce the same conductivity as copper. By the end of 1898, the Pittsburgh Reduction Company (later Alcoa) had sales commitments for 1.3 million pounds of aluminum wire. | |||||||||||
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Aluminum electric power transmission lines at the Power Administration facility near Moro, Oregon, 1978 |
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