What was the first thing made from Alcoa aluminum?
Early on in Alcoa’s existence, back when it was still called the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, the first employee, Arthur Vining Davis, had a teakettle made out of Alcoa aluminum. He only wanted to demonstrate that there was a market for this metal that no one knew of, but when he took the teakettles to the Griswold Company of Erie, Pa, the owner insisted on ordering 2,000 kettles, and Alcoa was forced into the fabricating business. Now, we make thousands of products. Click on our product catalog to see them all.
