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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 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 223,852 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Charles Martin Hall is the 160th most popular inventor (up from 167th in 2019), the 2,357th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,367th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Charles Martin Hall ranks 160 out of 354Before him are Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, Sequoyah, Christopher Latham Sholes, Paul Baran, Joseph Monier, and Uziel Gal. After him are Guillaume Amontons, Orban, Robert Cailliau, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, and Charles Cros.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Charles Martin Hall ranks 53Before him are Paul Painlevé, Abdul Karim, Manuel Gomes da Costa, Annie Jump Cannon, Arthur Machen, and Alexander Siloti. After him are Paul Drude, Hermann Bahr, Émile Friant, Princess Isabella of Bavaria, Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, and Gabriel Pierné. Among people deceased in 1914, Charles Martin Hall ranks 38Before him are Christian Morgenstern, Anatoly Lyadov, Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Giuseppe Mercalli, and Jurji Zaydan. After him are Julio Argentino Roca, Theodor Lipps, Louis Couturat, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, George William Hill, and John Muir.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Martin Hall ranks 2,357 out of 18,182Before him are Daniel Stern (1957), Grace Moore (1898), Harry Nilsson (1941), Bill Gates Sr. (1925), Karen Carpenter (1950), and Robert F. Engle (1942). After him are Van Cliburn (1934), James Montgomery Flagg (1877), Don Taylor (1920), J. C. R. Licklider (1915), Miguel Ferrer (1955), and Holly Hunter (1958).

Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Charles Martin Hall ranks 38Before him are Josiah Warren (1798), Alfred Vail (1807), Mary Anderson (1862), Hiram Maxim (1840), Sequoyah (1770), and Christopher Latham Sholes (1819). After him are Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), Melvil Dewey (1851), Garrett Morgan (1877), George Pullman (1831), Royal Rife (1888), and J. Presper Eckert (1919).