Charles Martin Hall
American chemist
Died when: 51 years 21 days (612 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Charles Martin Hall (December 6, 1863 – December 27, 1914) was an American inventor, businessman, and chemist.He is best known for his invention in 1886 of an inexpensive method for producing aluminum, which became the first metal to attain widespread use since the prehistoric discovery of iron.
He was one of the founders of Alcoa.Alfred E.Hunt, together with Charles Hall and a group of five other individuals – his partner at the , George Hubbard Clapp; his chief chemist, W.
S.Sample;Howard Lash, head of the Carbon Steel Company;Millard Hunsiker, sales manager for the ; and Robert Scott, a mill superintendent for the Carnegie Steel Company – raised $20,000 to launch the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, which was later renamed Aluminum Company of America and shortened to Alcoa.
Related People
American chemist
American chemist
.jpg?width=300)
American chemist