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Forge and tilt hammer helves: sealed April 1887.<Ref> Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - 7 Apr 1887</Ref> | Forge and tilt hammer helves: sealed April 1887.<Ref> Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - 7 Apr 1887</Ref> | ||
Improved armour plates: sealed March 1887.<Ref> | Improved armour plates No 3746: sealed 29 March 1887.<Ref>[https://graces-guide-s3-live.s3.amazonaws.com/gracesguide/3/36/Engineering-18870422.pdf The Engineer 22 Apr 1887], page 386</Ref> Tested by the Royal Navy 4 Oct 1888. <Ref>Sheffield Daily Telegraph - 11 Oct 1888</Ref> | ||
Producing designs of textile piece goods: spec accepted Jan 1887.<Ref> Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - 24 Jan 1887</Ref> | Producing designs of textile piece goods: spec accepted Jan 1887.<Ref> Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - 24 Jan 1887</Ref> | ||
Latest revision as of 15:37, 21 February 2025
John Francis Hall (1854-1897) of William Jessop and Sons
Born 18 Feb 1854 in Sheffield, son of John Hall (1824-1907), who was later of Norbury Hall, colonial merchant, and director of Wm Jessop and Sons 1875-1891.
1870-1875 Pupil at William Jessop and Sons.[1]
1875-1878 Works Manager (steel making) at William Jessop and Sons.[2]
1878-1891 General Manger at William Jessop and Sons. [3]
1879 Elected Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. [4]
1885 Elected Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. [5]
1889 A founding director of the Snyder Dynamite Projectile Company Limited.[6]
1890 Initial subscriber in The Nickel Steel Syndicate Limited, established to buy the patent rights and inventions of Société Anonyme La Farro Nickel and John Francis Hall relating to nickel steel armour plate.[7]
1892 Initial subscriber in Hall's Patent Anchor Co Limited, established to buy and manufacture his patent for stockless anchors.[8]
1897 Died suddenly on 27 May 1897.
J F Hall was a prolific inventor and made many patent applications, some of which are listed below.
1897 Obituary [9]
JOHN FRANCIS HALL, son of Mr. John Hall, of Norbury, Sheffield, was born on the 18th February, 1854.
After being educated in Sheffield, and at Neuwied, in Germany, he entered the works of Messrs. William Jessop & Sons, of Brightside, Sheffield, as a pupil in 1870. He remained with that firm for twenty years, during the last twelve of which he was responsible for the general management of the works.
After mastering the details of the various branches of crucible steel-making, Mr. Hall turned his attention to steel castings as a substitute for iron in work connected with naval architecture. Propeller-blades, stern-posts, rudders, cranks, anchors and shells were cast in steel under his supervision with great success, and he produced an anchor which has been adopted by the British Government, by several foreign powers and by some of the largest ship-building firms.
Mr. Hall subsequently turned his attention to the development of nickel steel and visited America in 1890 with the object of opening a connection with the nickel mines of Canada, to supply the raw material, and of negotiating for patent rights in the United States. In addition to the anchor already referred to, he effected improvements in the manufacture of armour-plates, in steam-engine cranks, adjustable couplings for marine shafts, and in the treatment of steel generally.
Mr. Hall died at Norbury on the 27th May, 1897. He was an ardent sportsman, both with rod and gun, and in his youth was well known as an athlete. To the Institution of Naval Architects, of which he was a member, he contributed Papers on “Cast Steel as a Material for Crank-Shafts,” and “Flexible Crank- and Propeller-Shafting in lieu of Rigid Shafting for Marine Propulsion.”
He was elected a Member of this Institution on the 1st December, 1886.
1897 Obituary [10]
JOHN FRANCIS HALL died at Sheffield on June 3, 1897, at the age of forty-three years.
After being educated at Sheffield and at Neuwied, Germany, he entered the works of Messrs. William Jessop & Sons as a pupil in 1870. He remained with that firm for twenty years. His attention was subsequently devoted to the use of steel castings as a substitute for iron in work connected with naval architecture. He was the inventor of the patent anchor which bears his name, and of various other contrivances.
He was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and of the Institution of Naval Architects. He was elected a member of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1878.
"Death of Mr. J . F. Hall.- The death has occurred at Sheffield, at the comparatively early age of 43, of Mr. John Francis Hall. Although he had been ailing for some time, his death was altogether unexpected.
He was for 20 years connected with the firm of William Jessop and Sons, and had much to do with the development of their steel foundry business. He took out several patents, more particularly having reference to marine work. Hall's patent anchor was one of his productions. He was for many years an active member of the Society of Naval Architects, of the Iron and Steel Institute, and of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
In his younger days he was an ardent sportsman and athlete.
At his funeral on Saturday a large number of friends was present."
Some of Hall's patent applications (known to be incomplete)
Patents in own name only
Improvements in the manufacture of shot and shell: Application May 1886[13]
Forge and tilt hammer helves: sealed April 1887.[14]
Improved armour plates No 3746: sealed 29 March 1887.[15] Tested by the Royal Navy 4 Oct 1888. [16]
Producing designs of textile piece goods: spec accepted Jan 1887.[17]
Improvements in alloys containing iron or steel: provisional spec Apr 1888. [18]
Improvements relating to the casting of ingots and other forms of metal (No. 20,721): Prov’l Spec accepted 1890 . [19]
Improvements in or applicable to the tyres or rims of wheeled vehicles: Application 8 Jul 1891.[20]
The heating of metal for the purpose of manipulation (1892 No 17,613): Application Oct 1892. [21]
Improvements in coffee and milk holders, and such vessels may be used hold two liquids (1893 No 11,562): Application Jun 1893. [22]
Cable chains (No. 18,100):Application 1894. [23]
Patents made jointly with John Verity of Bramley, Leeds
Couplings for screw propeller and other shafts: sealed June 1886.[24] See also The Engineer 6 Nov 1885 p352.
Improvements in the construction of anchors: sealed 18 March 1887.[25]
Improvements in the construction of cranks (1886 No 5268): sealed 22 Apr 1887.[26]
Construction of Anchors (1888 No 6918): Provisional Spec May 1888, prob sealed 28 Jan 1889, then prolonged in 1895. [27]
Patent applications made jointly with C H Morton
Anchors (1888 No 13578): Application Oct 1888.[28]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ ICE and IMechE membership records
- ↑ ICE and IMechE membership records
- ↑ ICE membership records and Leeds Mercury - 28 Mar 1891
- ↑ IMechE membership records
- ↑ ICE membership records
- ↑ The Times - 9 Feb 1889
- ↑ Financial Times - 16 Aug 1890
- ↑ Sheffield Daily Telegraph - 14 Mar 1882
- ↑ 1897 Institution of Civil Engineers: Obituaries
- ↑ 1897 Iron and Steel Institute: Obituaries
- ↑ Engineering 1897/06/04
- ↑ Engineering 1897 Jan-Jun: Index: General Index
- ↑ Sheffield Daily Telegraph - 2 Jun 1886
- ↑ Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - 7 Apr 1887
- ↑ The Engineer 22 Apr 1887, page 386
- ↑ Sheffield Daily Telegraph - 11 Oct 1888
- ↑ Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - 24 Jan 1887
- ↑ Sheffield Daily Telegraph - 30 Apr 1888
- ↑ Sheffield Daily Telegraph - 20 Dec 1890
- ↑ Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 11 July 1891
- ↑ Sheffield Daily Telegraph - 15 Oct 1892
- ↑ Sheffield Daily Telegraph - 25 Jun 1893
- ↑ Yorkshire Gazette - 6 Oct 1894
- ↑ Sheffield Weekly Telegraph - 3 Jul 1886
- ↑ Pudsey & Stanningley News - 25 Mar 1887
- ↑ Leeds Mercury - 29 Apr 1887
- ↑ Sheffield Daily Telegraph - 30 May 1888; Birmingham Daily Post - 25 Jan 1895
- ↑ The Marine Engineer - 1 Nov 1888