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Furthermore, aluminum was not initially chosen by anyone associated with the Washington Monument. Colonel [[Thomas Lincoln Casey]], its second phase architect, in his first letter to metallurgist [[William Frishmuth]], suggested that the metal cap be made of "Copper, or Bronze or Brass" "plated with Platinum". Frishmuth suggested aluminum instead, but even he stated that if he was unsuccessful in casting it, he recommended gold plated aluminum bronze. See [http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9511/Binczewski-9511.html The Point of a Monument: A History of the Aluminum Cap of the Washington Monument] — [[User:Joe Kress|Joe Kress]] ([[User talk:Joe Kress|talk]]) 22:07, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
Furthermore, aluminum was not initially chosen by anyone associated with the Washington Monument. Colonel [[Thomas Lincoln Casey]], its second phase architect, in his first letter to metallurgist [[William Frishmuth]], suggested that the metal cap be made of "Copper, or Bronze or Brass" "plated with Platinum". Frishmuth suggested aluminum instead, but even he stated that if he was unsuccessful in casting it, he recommended gold plated aluminum bronze. See [http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9511/Binczewski-9511.html The Point of a Monument: A History of the Aluminum Cap of the Washington Monument] — [[User:Joe Kress|Joe Kress]] ([[User talk:Joe Kress|talk]]) 22:07, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
:::'''ASAP CUAGAU!!'''
:A comment of primal clarity,
:Stacking copper on silver on gold;
:A column that folds up the verity,
:Periodically tolled, or untold.
[[User:Vesuvius Dogg|Vesuvius Dogg]] ([[User talk:Vesuvius Dogg|talk]]) 22:30, 20 April 2019 (UTC) '''29-47-79'''

Revision as of 22:30, 20 April 2019

Good articleWashington Monument has been listed as one of the Art and architecture good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
February 3, 2005Featured article candidateNot promoted
March 7, 2015Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 20, 2015.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Washington Monument, the world's tallest obelisk, sustained more than 150 cracks from the 2011 Virginia earthquake?
Current status: Good article

Vandalism (07/26/2017)

At the end of the introduction some idiot added this last line: "The Washington Monument is expected to re-open to visitors in 2019.[22]In 2017, an explosion further damaged the elevator and nearly killed six high-school students and a teacher, only to be saved by Spider Man."

This is clearly vandalism, could someone please restore the last usable version of this article please? --177.230.93.9 (talk) 00:08, 27 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

 Done TimothyJosephWood 00:17, 27 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Lightning rods and such timeline

I am confused. The picture of the apex taken in 1934 clearly shows the corrosion that was under the gold-plated copper band which held eight lightning rods. The article says the band was removed in 2013, and goes on to describe the corrosion as if it were discovered at that time. Was it also removed in 1934, and then reinstalled over the (already) illegible inscriptions? Gimelgort (talk) 00:19, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The band that originally held short lightning rods was replaced in 1934 by another band with holes for long lightning rods in a different pattern. The 1934 picture shows that the inscriptions were already damaged in 1934 and that three lines were added to the east face in 1934, but neither fact is mentioned in most sources. These facts are mentioned in the "2013–2014 Survey of the Washington Monument" already referenced in the article, which includes rather poor pictures of all four faces of the aluminum apex as they appeared in 2013–2014 in Appendix G on pages 90–95. I'll add this info to the article. — Joe Kress (talk) 20:30, 16 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Vesica Piscis added to Washington Monument landscaping in 2004

I added... Vesica Piscis In the 2004 grounds renovation, two large circles were added to the landscaping with the obelisk in the intersection or vesica pisces. (The photo was already there.) 73.85.203.107 (talk) 01:38, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Aluminum: element 13

In a comment to this talk page deleted by its writer, Vesuvius Dogg, aluminum is called element 13, "And the capstone made of aluminum, element 13." Elements were not numbered that way until 1913 when Henry Moseley proposed that the elements in the Periodic table be numbered in the order of the positive charge of their nucleus. Previously, including the period when the Washington Monument was proposed or under construction, 1833–1888, elements were ordered via their atomic weight. In Dmitri Mendeleev's first draft of his periodic table in 1869, aluminum is "numbered" 27, its atomic weight. Its modern atomic weight is 26.98.

Furthermore, aluminum was not initially chosen by anyone associated with the Washington Monument. Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey, its second phase architect, in his first letter to metallurgist William Frishmuth, suggested that the metal cap be made of "Copper, or Bronze or Brass" "plated with Platinum". Frishmuth suggested aluminum instead, but even he stated that if he was unsuccessful in casting it, he recommended gold plated aluminum bronze. See The Point of a Monument: A History of the Aluminum Cap of the Washington Monument — Joe Kress (talk) 22:07, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

ASAP CUAGAU!!
A comment of primal clarity,
Stacking copper on silver on gold;
A column that folds up the verity,
Periodically tolled, or untold.
Vesuvius Dogg (talk) 22:30, 20 April 2019 (UTC) 29-47-79[reply]
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