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In 1891 after Cowles began to advertise "pure aluminum" they were sued by the Pittsburgh Reduction Company. The judge announced his decision in January 1893, finding them to be infringing the patent of Hall and having gained knowledge of his process by hiring away a chemist named Hobbs who was the foreman in Pittsburgh.
The Hall–Héroult process is the major industrial process for smelting aluminium. It involves dissolving aluminium oxide (alumina) (obtained most often from bauxite , aluminium 's chief ore, through the Bayer process ) in molten cryolite and electrolyzing the molten salt bath, typically in a purpose-built cell.
Charles Martin Hall was born to Herman Bassett Hall and Sophronia H. Brooks on December 6, 1863, in Thompson, Ohio. [2] Charles's father, Herman, graduated from Oberlin College in 1847, and studied for three years at the Oberlin Theological Seminary, where he met his future wife, Sophronia Brooks.
The specific electrical resistance of the coke-type anodes is higher than that of the graphitized ones, but they have higher compressive strength and lower porosity. [ 10 ] Soderberg electrodes (in-situ baking), used for the first time in 1923 in Norway, are composed of a steel shell and a carbonaceous mass which is baked by the heat being ...
Julia Brainerd Hall (November 11, 1859 – September 4, 1926) [1] was the sister of American scientist Charles Martin Hall. She supported him in his discovery of the Hall process for extracting aluminium from its ore. [ 2 ]
Bust of Heroult in Thury-Harcourt. Paul (Louis-Toussaint) Héroult (10 April 1863 – 9 May 1914) was a French scientist. He was one of the inventors of the Hall-Héroult process for smelting aluminium, and developed the first successful commercial electric arc furnace. [1] He lived in Thury-Harcourt, Normandy.
Under Hanna, the company expanded into other fields including iron ore mining in the area around Lake Superior. [2] It became Hanna Mining in 1885. Incorporation took place in 1922 and was named as the M.A. Hanna Company. In 1929 the Hanna Company transferred its blast furnaces, coke ovens, and other assets for stock of the National Steel ...
[h] Hall co-founded the Pittsburgh Reduction Company in 1888 and initiated production of aluminium. [88] Hall's patent was granted in 1889. [74] [i] In 1889, Hall's production began to use the principle of internal heating. [j] By September 1889, Hall's production grew to 385 pounds (175 kilograms) at a cost of $0.65 per pound. [91]