Commercialization: aluminum to the forefront

Metal of the Modern Era
When aluminum was first introduced to the public at the Paris Exposition of 1855, a writer for National Magazine remarked, "just now, in this new metal, so long concealed in every hill-side, and even in the very dust of our streets, science seems about to make over to the arts one of her occasional bestowments, by which both the knowledge and power of our race are, at an instant, so widely increased."

The American Chemical Society designated the Commercialization of the Hall Aluminum Process a National Historic Chemical Landmark in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on November 2, 2001.