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Chuck Hull was born on May 12, 1939 in Clifton, Col- 4 Recognition
orado, the son of Lester and Esther Hull. His early life
was spent in Clifton and Gateway, Colorado. He gradu-
• 2014 winner of the European Inventor Award in the
ated from Central High School in Grand Junction, Col-
Non-European countries category [13] awarded by
orado. Chuck received a BS in engineering physics from
the European Patent Office
the University of Colorado in 1961.[4]
5 References
2 Beginnings of stereolithography
[1] “Forbes Profile”. Forbes.
Hull first came up with the idea in 1983 when he [2] Businessweek Executive Profile
was using UV light to harden tabletop coatings.[5]
[3] “Charles Hull: Stereolithography (3D Printing)". In-
Hull coined the term “stereolithography” in his U.S.
[6] ductees. National Inventors Hall of Fame. Retrieved 4
Patent 4,575,330, entitled “Apparatus for Production March 2014.
of Three-Dimensional Objects by Stereolithography” is-
sued on March 11, 1986.[7] He defined stereolithogra- [4] 3DSYSTEMS. “Charles W. Hull Co-Founder and Chief
phy as a method and apparatus for making solid ob- Technology Officer”. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
jects by successively “printing” thin layers of the ultra-
[5] Ponsford, Matthew (14 February 2014). “The night I in-
violet curable material one on top of the other. In Hull’s vented 3D printing'\". Cable News Network. Retrieved 14
patent, a concentrated beam of ultraviolet light is focused February 2014.
onto the surface of a vat filled with liquid photopolymer.
The light beam, moving under computer control, draws [6]
each layer of the object onto the surface of the liquid.
[7] U.S. Patent 4,575,330 (“Apparatus for Production of
Wherever the beam strikes the surface, the photopolymer Three-Dimensional Objects by Stereolithography”)
polymerizes/crosslinks and changes to a solid. An ad-
vanced CAD/CAM/CAE software mathematically slices [8] Stereolithography
the computer model of the object into a large number of
[9] pg 4-1997 NSF JTEC/WTEC Panel Report-RPA http://
thin layers. The process then builds the object layer by www.wtec.org/pdf/rp_vi.pdf
layer starting with the bottom layer, on an elevator that is
lowered slightly after solidification of each layer. [8] [10] History of 3D
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6 External links
• 3D Systems Web site: http://www.3dsystems.com
• Forbes Magazine Profile, Charles W. Hull http://
www.forbes.com
• Executive Profile: Charles W. Hull, http://www.
businessweek.com
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