Show Use Use of I 1 I Copper 4 By DR FRANK CRANE Th Tho extent to which copper Is used was 8 demonstrated demonstrated demon demon- demonstrated the other day by Thomas D D. Brophy of ot the Anaconda Copper Mining lIning com company pan in a speech before the Rotary clUb dub of ot New York York- Thero There Is s scarcely a basic Industry that is f not reliant in greater or less degree upon the services of ot copper or its alloys In 1923 1023 there v were vere ere pounds of ot copper produced in all nil the world The largest single consumer consumer con con- sumer of ot copper is the electrical industry which I means the telegraph and telephone systems electric urban and interurban lines and light and power powers I s stems systems I The worlds world's telegraph and telephone systems have already consumed pounds of ot copper andare andare and andare j are now using It at the rate of ot pounds I I a year The world orld is Jis is girdled b by pounds of ot copper in submarine cables In the locomotive there are about pounds of ot copper used The average automobile has twenty five places where copper Is employed One days day's output of ot Fords at the Highland Park plant alone requires miles of ot copper tubing for tor radiators and sixty seven tons of ot brass for tor various parts and appliances es The Leviathan contains more than a million I pounds of ot copper an and copper bearing materials A modern contains two million pounds of ot copper The Grand Central station in New NewYork York contains over pounds of ot copper and the Equitable Building has a total of ot nearly pounds pound The ordinary streetcar contains about 2500 pounds of ot copper Into our American street railway systems systems systems has gone pounds of the material The annual average consumption of ot copper for tor each man wom woman n and child in the United States State is almost fifteen pounds The United States is the greatest using copper country in the world Almost one half the worlds world's total production of ot copper Is consumed in the United Unite States The re recent nt great great Increase in the use of ot copper coppe and Its alloys aIlo's In this country may be attributed largely largel to the work of ot the Copper and Brass Research Research Re Re- search association Copyright 1925 by McClure Newspaper r Syndicate |