THE KINLOCHLEVEN WORKS OF THE BRITISH ALUMINIUM COMPANY.

An account of the greatest Water-Power Installation in the United Kingdom.

Aluminium.

THOUGH aluminium is tho most widely distributed of metals, being a con stituent of all clays, it was, until about twenty years ago, very expensive, owing to the great difficulty experi enced in separating it from tho other substances with which it is combined. \ Voider first isolated it in 1827 by a chemical method, which was gradually improved ujhui during the following sixty years. In 1885 electrical processes of separation were first tried, and shortly afterwards the production of tho motal on a large scale, causing a drop in tho price from about 20s. to 5s. a pound, commenced. At the present time aluminium may be bought at prices ranging from soven-pence to a shilling per pound, according to the state of the metal market and the form in which it is required. Tho most noticeable property of aluminium,