Charles Martin Hall

Hall, Charles Martin, 1863-1914 -- Pictorial works.
Pittsburgh -- Reduction Company -- Pictorial works.
Inventors United States -- Pictorial works.
Engineers United States -- Pictorial works.
Aluminum industry and trade United States -- Pictorial works.

1 negative : film, b&w ; 13 x 10 cm.

Pittsburgh Photographic Library Collection.

1905

Pittsburgh

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Photographs

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Iron & Steel Heritage Collection

Pittsburgh Collection.

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Title from caption.; Picture caption: Charles Martin Hall, the boy who was determined to become an inventor. Working with homemade equipment in the family woodshed, he discovered a low-cost process for separating aluminum from its oxide and thus started America's gigantic aluminum industry.; Photographic negative.; P 5592--Sleeve.; In: Pittsburgh Collection, sub-collection of the Pittsburgh Photographic Library Collection, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Dept.; Boyhood portrait of Charles Martin Hall, inventor of the Hall-Héroult process and founder of the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, which later became Alcoa.