THE STORY OF COPPER

by Davis, Watson

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NY:: Century,, 1924. Hardcover; dull gilt-stamped cover & spine; otherwise good.. index. With b&w full-pg. + in-text photos & drawings. History & present-day uses of copper--one of earliest metal tools. Covers--finding, mining, refining; uses in electricity, & in construction; alloyed with tin or zinc to make bronze or brass; etc. /// With--Marcosson, I. ANACONDA. 357pp. + index. 39 b&w full-pg. photos. Hardcover; gilt-stamped cover & spine; pictorial endpapers; yellowed contents pp.--reminiscent of wartime quality. NY: Dodd Mead, 1957. ||| Often-glowing history from founding to mid-1950s, as it grew from mining in Montana to Brass Works; Wire & Cable; aluminum extractor, uranium processor, zinc & manganese producer, etc., etc. Together 2 books.