If you should have occasion to visit Oberlin College you will see
some of these first globules of Hall's aluminum displayed in the
Severance Chemical Laboratory. They are in a hand-wrought aluminum
jewel casket labelled "The Crown Jewels" of aluminum. At the age of 22, Hall had succeeded where some of the world's best-known scientists had failed. We have often said the desire to do a thing is more important than the knowledge of how to do it. But the young inventor ran up against the situation that confronts nearly everyone who brings out a new thing, the problem of convincing the world he had something valuable. This took another two years until three Pittsburgh men raised $20,000.00 to finance the new enterprise calling it the Pittsburgh Reduction Company. |
