I need to do some more research for myself, but that is the reason I was given for the spelling diffence by an ALCOA representative when they came to speak at some point while I was an undergrad in Aerospace Engineering at Purdue University.
Put two and two together. In their early patent information they used the spelling "Aluminium" but all of a sudden it changed to "Aluminum" when the company began using it in it's name. Please read their explination http://www.alcoa.com/site/company/num_nium.asp
Sure, everyone has their own priorites. If say you ran MacOS or WIN and you bought a few applications you could be spending upwards of $1000 dollars, but when your apps are free as most are on most *NIX clones spending $200 dollars on a case doen't seem so bad:)
"Aluminium" is the original and true spelling. The spelling "Aluminum" came about because of ALCOA, one of the largest producers of the metal. Many years ago ALCOA had many thousands (or more) of pamphlets printed advertising their new products. All of these pamphlets contained the typo "Aluminum". Instead of spending millions of dollars to fix the typo, it was left alone and "Aluminum" became an accepted spelling (with some dispute of course).
So, in fact, if you are buying "Aluminum" you are buying an ALCOA product, and everyone else produces "Aluminium".
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I need to do some more research for myself, but that is the reason I was given for the spelling diffence by an ALCOA representative when they came to speak at some point while I was an undergrad in Aerospace Engineering at Purdue University.
Put two and two together. In their early patent information they used the spelling "Aluminium" but all of a sudden it changed to "Aluminum" when the company began using it in it's name. Please read their explination http://www.alcoa.com/site/company/num_nium.asp
Sure, everyone has their own priorites. If say you ran MacOS or WIN and you bought a few applications you could be spending upwards of $1000 dollars, but when your apps are free as most are on most *NIX clones spending $200 dollars on a case doen't seem so bad :)
"Aluminium" is the original and true spelling. The spelling "Aluminum" came about because of ALCOA, one of the largest producers of the metal. Many years ago ALCOA had many thousands (or more) of pamphlets printed advertising their new products. All of these pamphlets contained the typo "Aluminum". Instead of spending millions of dollars to fix the typo, it was left alone and "Aluminum" became an accepted spelling (with some dispute of course).
So, in fact, if you are buying "Aluminum" you are buying an ALCOA product, and everyone else produces "Aluminium".