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Dec 06, 1863 Thompson Township, Ohio, United States Died on 27 Dec 1914 (aged 51)
American chemist
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About Charles Martin Hall
- 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 Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, George Hubbard Clapp; his 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 – raised $20,000 to launch the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, which was later renamed Aluminum Company of America and shortened to Alcoa.
