Berlin, Aug.
Dr. Alfred Wilm, the invent: dur aluminium, the alloy to whose use the safety of aeroplanes and ait-ships is mainly due, died at his house in the Riesengebirge to-day heart failure at the age of 68.
Dr. Wilm had a great reputation as a metallurgist and inventor. He began his career as chemist and at first had a position as/ assistant at Goettingen *University where Prof. Woehler. the discoverer of alumina ium, also once worked. Dr Wilm. discovered dur aluminium the result-of many years of tematic research in metallur; at the German Central Laboratory for Scientific and Technical resear h at Neubabelsberg near Berlin Ocean.
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