[Sca-cooks] Aluminum

[Jeff Elder]

Bit of aluminum trivia.  
At the top of the Washington Monument in Washington D.C.:
http://theroadtoemmaus.org/RdLb/21PbAr/Hst/US/WashMonCap.htm

To complete the obelisk, the aluminum capstone weighing 100 ounces, the largest single piece of aluminum cast to that time, was placed atop the pyramidion on Saturday, December 6, 1884. Colonel Casey was elated at meeting his deadline for completion of the Washington Monument.

Prior to delivery of the capstone in Washington, it was placed on exhibit at Tiffany's in New York City where it was placed on the floor and persons could have the dubious prestige of "jumping over the top of the Washington Monument." Engraved on the four sides of the capstone was the official record of the construction of the monument.

Simon Hondy