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• Does the 'Statistics' section (~p.35) of Richards' 1896 Aluminium monograph contain the $2/lb-1889 and $0.5/lb-1894 figures Hanners attributes to it?
  capture promoted Tier 1 — see per-claim fields 2026-07-23 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, price-history, hall-heroult
• Richards' 1896 'Statistics' table (p. 35) confirms Hanners' $2/lb-1889 and $0.50/lb-1894 aluminium price figures verbatim
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-23 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, price-history, hall-heroult
• Richards' 1896 table's 1889–1894 aluminium prices are one continuous Pittsburgh series, not a stitched multi-source splice
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-23 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, price-history, hall-heroult
• Richards' 1896 price table has no entry at all for 1884
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-23 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, price-history, hall-heroult
• Richards' own 1896 preface gives $12/lb (~1885) falling to $0.50/lb (late 1895) — a different pair of figures than the popular $16/1884-to-$0.5/1894 sequence
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-22 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, price-history, hall-heroult
• Skrabec and Lockwood give contradictory 1884 aluminium-vs-silver price relationships for the same event
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-22 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, price-history, hall-heroult
• USGS's official historical aluminium price series has no data for 1884, 1888–1894 — the exact years the popular price-collapse figures depend on
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-22 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, price-history, hall-heroult
• Wikipedia's Hall-Héroult aluminium price sequence splices two unrelated secondary sources, not one continuous series
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-22 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, price-history, sourcing
• Does the 'Statistics' section (~p.35) of Richards' 1896 Aluminium monograph contain the $2/lb-1889 and $0.5/lb-1894 figures Hanners attributes to it?
  question answered 2026-07-22 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, price-history, hall-heroult
• What primary source supports the Hall-Héroult era aluminium price figures ($16/lb 1884 → $2/lb 1889 → $0.5/lb 1894)?
  capture promoted Tier mixed — see per-claim fields 2026-07-21 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, price-history, sourcing
• Investigating the aluminium / low-background-steel bridge: real, but the vault already owns the connective tissue
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-15 · economics, resource-economics, wrights-law, hotelling-rule, aluminium
• Aluminium's Hall-Héroult price decline and low-background steel's fallout decay are the same functional form — exponential decay in calendar time — for unrelated mechanisms
  observation seedling Tier 4 2026-07-15 · economics, resource-economics, aluminium, nuclear-history, cross-domain-bridge
• Aluminium's price fell continuously after the Hall-Héroult process, without a hold-then-collapse plateau
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-12 · economics, commodity-markets, price-dynamics, aluminium, history
• What primary source supports the Hall-Héroult era aluminium price figures ($16/lb 1884 → $2/lb 1889 → $0.5/lb 1894)?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, sourcing, price-history