Talk:2694: Königsberg
Revision as of 03:55, 5 November 2022 by 172.68.146.80 (talk)
- Aluminum foil
Why would aluminum foil be valuable? I can see how it would be hard to produce at the time. But how would it be used and why would people of the time see a lot of value in it? 172.71.146.65 03:42, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
- Good question, but I'm persuaded the novelty and scarcity of metallic aluminium would have made it plenty valuable among those already wealthy enough to recognize what it was. Prussia was wealthy and Königsberg was its largest port city back then, so probably the mayor would have been able. 172.70.206.205 03:49, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
- Aluminium was very valuable - methods for its extraction from ore didn't exist in any useful form until much later. 172.68.146.80 03:55, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
