A monument at Oberlin College honors the man who came up with the first cheap way to produce this material.  
A monument at Oberlin College honors the man who came up with the first cheap way to produce this material.  Romaine Cole and Howard Lash were co-founders of the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, which soon gained a monopoly on making this material.  Henri Sainte-Claire Deville developed a process to make enough of this material to show off at the 1855 Exposition Universelle. In a 1945 case unusually sent to the Second Circuit, (*) Learned Hand ruled that a natural monopoly in producing this material should be broken up.  A cap made of this material was placed on the Washington Monument to celebrate its completion.  Napoleon III supposedly dined with cutlery made of this material while his guests had to settle for gold.  A patent on producing this metal was controlled by Charles Hall and the ALCOA company.  For 10 points, name this metal found in soda cans.
A monument at Oberlin College honors the man who came up with the first cheap way to produce this material.  
aluminum [or aluminium] 