Long before Apple’s aluminum unibody hardware designs –– along with Jony Ive’s unmistakeable “aluminium” pronunciation –– aluminum had already changed the world of mass manufacturing.
Having dropped in price by over 1200% over a 50-year stretch, what was once one of the most difficult metals to refine became one of the cheapest thanks to mass manufacturing developments in the 1880s. Heck, aluminum was even single-handedly responsible for changing the world of air travel as we know it today.
In this video released yesterday from the chaps over at Real Engineering, we get a six-minute breakdown of how aluminum has changed the world forever:
