Titanium: The New "Cinderella Metal" (Exhibition)

Exist Dates

1950 August 24 - unknown

Biographical or Historical Note

abstract

Exhibition. Opened August 24, 1950. Located in the Morgan Memorial Hall of Minerals and Gems at the American Museum of Natural History. "Titanium: The New 'Cinderella Metal" followed the development of the new "Cinderella Metal," titanium.

Summary

"Titanium: The New 'Cinderella Metal" followed the development of the new "Cinderella Metal," titanium. The exhibition demonstrated how titanium became one of the great metals of the age with a wide variety of uses and showed examples of the minerals in which titanium occurs. Dr. Frederick H. Pough, Curator of Physical Geology and Mineralogy, stated that titanium would soon rank along with aluminum and iron in applications. The exhibition, sponsored by the National Lead Company, was on view in the Morgan Hall of the American Museum of Natural History starting August 24, 1950.

Individuals and institutions involved in the creation of the exhibition: National Lead Company; Frederick H. Pough, AMNH Curator of Physical Geology and Mineralogy.

Sources

American Museum of Natural History Press Release, August 24, 1950. Departmental Records, 101; American Museum of Natural History Library Archives.

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Related Corporate, Personal, and Family Names

American Museum of Natural History. Morgan Memorial Hall of Minerals and Gems.
Location of exhibition.

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