Marshall Hall: Combustion
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Marshall Hall: Combustion
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 18 Feb 2017
Outside the Renold Building at the University of Manchester is a sculpture. A plaque on one side simply reads: MARSHALL HALL COMBUSTION 1994 A fellow contemporary student tells me that Marshall Hall was a fine art student at Manchester Metro Uni 1991 to 1994, in the sculpture department. He made welded steel objects, which he let rust, I wonder if he was inspired by an article in Vol 5 of The Journal of science and the arts published in 1818: "On the spontaneous Combustion of Cotton Goods, which have been imbued with Linseed Oil. By Marshall Hall, M.D. It is well known that cotton goods, either intentionally, or accidentally, imbued with linseed oil, are likely to take fire spontaneously. ... Many fires in cotton mills are probably owing to this accident." https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QhA_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA367&lpg=PA367&dq=marshall+hall+combustion&source=bl&ots=P0Dza8jLJp&sig=F0UJ8pgtSRm3f09dhWb3CjMiuZo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjR-KKQ5KjZAhWlLMAKHfxiC0wQ6AEIQDAG#v=onepage&q=marshall%20hall%20combustion&f=false
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