Dowmetal Magnesium: The Metal of Motion
- 1944
Print advertisement for Dowmetal, a magnesium alloy manufactured and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustrated depiction of man using a circular saw alongside a hand lifting a winged ingot of magnesium. The accompanying text details Dow's extraction of magnesium from seawater and brine and Dowmetal's lightness and durability relative to other structural metals. The text also includes a reference to Dowmetal's wartime applications and speculates about its uses in the "coming era of ever-increasing speeds and efficiencies."
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Dow Chemical Company. “Dowmetal Magnesium: The Metal of Motion,” 1944. Advertisements from the Dow Chemical Historical Collection, Box 8. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/6h1grey.
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