Robert Taggart Hall
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Robert Taggart Hall (1877 – 1920) was owner and sometime-president of The Hall China Company in East Liverpool,
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Single-fire at Hall China

When Robert Taggart Hall took over the running of Hall China in 1904, he was determined to develop a single-fire range. Together with staff chemists and ceramic engineers, he experimented over seven years. Finally, in 1911, Hall and his staff were successful.


Lead-free ware by accident

Inadvertently,
Hall China The Hall China Company was an American ceramics manufacturer located in East Liverpool, Ohio, United States. At the time of its closure, Hall China was one of two potteries under the HLC Inc. brand, the other being Homer Laughlin China Company, H ...
developed a completely lead-free glaze. This was due not to particular health or environmental considerations, but that lead wouldn't survive the high firing temperatures required of their single-fire process.


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Museum Of Ceramics
1877 births 1920 deaths 20th-century American inventors People from East Liverpool, Ohio Engineers from Ohio {{US-inventor-stub