Charles Martin Hall, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Charles Martin Hall

American chemist

Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1863

Place of Birth: Thompson Township, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 27-Dec-1914

Profession: engineer, inventor, chemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac 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 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.