Modern Marvels - Season 14 Episode 25 Aluminum
This useful metal was once considered more valuable than gold. Watch as aluminum is stretched, pounded, melted and turned into foam. Did you know that aluminum is made out of a powder? Visit the widest rolling mill in the world where skins for the largest jets are made, then it’s off to NASA to observe how aluminum is used to make reflective mirrors for telescopes. Discover the process of making aluminum foil and learn why aluminum baseball bats are better than wood.
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: History, H2
- Keyword: technology, invention, disaster, construction, machine
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