 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Magirazi maduku gumi nemaviri ealuminium gare gare akaratidzirwa kekutanga kuruzhinji paExposition Universelle ya1855. Simbi yacho yakaratidzwa sesirivha yakabva muivhu aluminium yakafanana zvikuru nesirivha mukuona, uye zita iri rakakurumidza kushandiswa zvikuru. Yakakwezva ngwariro yakapararira; yakakarakadzwa kuti aruminiyamu ishandiswe muumhizha, nziyo, mushonga, kubika, uye midziyo yokudyira. Simbi iyi yakacherechedzwa nevanyori vepanguva iyoyo vaiti - Charles Dickens, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, naJules Verne - avo vaifungidzira kushandiswa kwayo munguva yemberi. Zvisinei, havasi vose vaifarira. Mapepanhau akanyora kuti, The Paris expo put an end to the fairy tale of the silver from clay, achitaura kuti zvakawanda zvezvakanga zvataurwa pamusoro pesimbi yacho zvakanga zvakawedzeredzwa kana zvisiri zvechokwadi uye kuti uwandu hwesimbi yakaratidzwa - inenge kirogiramu imwe chete - hwakanga hwakasiyana nezvakanga zvakarongwa uye hwakanga husiri hwakawanda nokuda kwechitsvakurudzo chainzi chaizoshandura nyika yose. Pamwe chete, mutambo wacho wakaguma nekutengeswa kwesimbi yacho. Gore iroro, aruminiyamu yakaiswa pamusika pamutengo weF 300 pakirogiramu. Pamusangano unotevera muParis muna 1867, vashanyi vakapiwa tambo yealuminium nefoshoro pamwe chete nechinhu chitsva chealuminium bronze, chinozivikanwa nokuda kwemari yakaderera yekugadzira, kukwirira kwakasimba kune ngura, uye zvinhu zvakanaka zvema mechanical. 