INVENTOR

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 aluminum, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Martin Hall has received more than 237,832 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Charles Martin Hall is the 182nd most popular inventor (down from 160th in 2019), the 2,645th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,354th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Inventor.

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  • 2.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Charles Martin Hall ranks 182 out of 426. Before him are Joseph Monier, Philo Farnsworth, Henrich Focke, James Dyson, Georges Claude, and Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva. After him are Larry Sanger, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, George de Mestral, Sandford Fleming, Traian Vuia, and Johann Christoph Denner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Charles Martin Hall ranks 61. Before him are W. I. Thomas, Paul Drude, Qasim Amin, Princess Isabella of Bavaria, S. Ansky, and Fyodor Sologub. After him are Gabriel Pierné, Margaret Murray, Felix Blumenfeld, Joseph Caillaux, Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, and Pierina Legnani. Among people deceased in 1914, Charles Martin Hall ranks 46. Before him are Julio Argentino Roca, Angelo Moriondo, Ivan Zajc, John Henry Poynting, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, and Stevan Mokranjac. After him are Ödön Lechner, John Muir, Albert Günther, Giovanni Sgambati, David Gill, and Pierre Souvestre.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Martin Hall ranks 2,645 out of 20,380. Before him are Lee Haney (1959), Terry Brooks (1944), Channing Tatum (1980), Dick York (1928), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919), and Nick Holonyak (1928). After him are Daniel Davis (1945), Linda Gray (1940), G. W. Bailey (1944), Marian Anderson (1897), J. J. Abrams (1966), and Kamehameha III (1814).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Charles Martin Hall ranks 43. Before him are Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), Bob Kahn (1938), Alfred Vail (1807), Garrett Morgan (1877), Royal Rife (1888), and Philo Farnsworth (1906). After him are Larry Sanger (1968), Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), Eunice Newton Foote (1819), and Raymond Damadian (1936).

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