Johnson, Marshall, 1938- , collector.

Marshall B. Johnson was born on December 5, 1938 in Mineola, Long Island, New York. Graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1960 he went to work for seven years at Black and Decker. In 1967, Johnson moved to Pittsburgh to join Alcoa. He was transferred to the Wear-Ever cookware division in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1971. While there he designed small electrical appliances. He also designed cutlery for the Alcas/Cutco division in Olean, New York. Johnson learned about the human hand working with Tom Lamb on handle projects. Johnson designed kitchen electrics, product graphics, and provided custom product models for over forty-five house-wares industry shows before his retirement in 2001. He is a past chair of the Industrial Designers Society of America Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic chapters.

In 1888, Charles Martin Hall and Alfred Hunt founded the Pittsburg Reduction Company based on Hall's electro-chemical reduction process for the extraction of aluminum from bauxite ore. They built a new plant at New Kensington, Pennsylvania, in 1891. The company changed its name to the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) in 1907.

...