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Charles Martin Hall

1863 - 1914

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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 aluminium, which became the first metal to attain widespread use since the prehistoric discovery of iron. He was one of the founders of Alcoa, along with Alfred E. Hunt; Hunt's partner at the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, George Hubbard Clapp; Hunt's chief chemist, W. S. Sample; Howard Lash, head of the Carbon Steel Company; Millard Hunsiker, sales manager for the Carbon Steel Company; and Robert Scott, a mill superintendent for the Carnegie Steel Company. Together they raised $20,000 to launch the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, which was later renamed Aluminum Company of America and then shortened to Alcoa. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Martin Hall is the 245th most popular inventor (down from 182nd in 2019), the 4,627th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,645th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Charles Martin Hall ranks 245 out of 426. Before him are Robert Whitehead, Aimo Lahti, Henry Maudslay, Alexander Parkes, John Kemp Starley, and Wan Hu. After him are Georges Hébert, Ricardo Wolf, Ottó Bláthy, François Isaac de Rivaz, Alphonse Beau de Rochas, and Peter Madsen.

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Among people born in 1863, Charles Martin Hall ranks 90. Before him are Augusto B. Leguía, Ioannis Frangoudis, Francis Younghusband, William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, Géza Gárdonyi, and Charles Pathé. After him are Edith Durham, Lyubomir Miletich, Władysław Horodecki, Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, Herbert James Draper, and Milka Ternina. Among people deceased in 1914, Charles Martin Hall ranks 72. Before him are David Gill, Adlai Stevenson I, Constantine V of Constantinople, Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg, Ellen Axson Wilson, and Prince Maurice of Battenberg. After him are Domenico Ferrata, Nils Christoffer Dunér, Mehmed Said Pasha, Adolf Martens, José Evaristo Uriburu, and Pyotr Nesterov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Martin Hall ranks 4,627 out of 20,380. Before him are Henry Darger (1892), Robert Taylor (1948), Elmore James (1918), Charles Fox Parham (1873), Peter Hyams (1943), and Bill Irwin (1950). After him are E. G. Daily (1961), Heather Graham (1970), Lesley Ann Warren (1946), Jen Psaki (1978), Horace Mann (1796), and Caspar Weinberger (1917).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Charles Martin Hall ranks 63. Before him are Royal Rife (1888), Melvil Dewey (1851), Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), Laurens Hammond (1895), John Wesley Hyatt (1837), and Philo Farnsworth (1906). After him are Marcian Hoff (1937), George Pullman (1831), Glenn Curtiss (1878), Michael S. Hart (1947), Ray Dolby (1933), and Robert Cornelius (1809).

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