Wu Chengluo (1892-1955), whose courtesy name was Jiandong, was born on February 29, 1892 in Yangxiwei Village, Pucheng County, Fujian Province. Affected by the Kangliang Reform, young Wu Chengluo yearned for Western learning and was determined to innovate. In 1910, he went to Shanghai Nanyang Middle School to study. In 1912, he was admitted to Beijing Tsinghua Preparatory School for Studying in the United States (the predecessor of Tsinghua University). In 1915, he went to the United States to study. He first studied at Lehigh University School of Engineering, focusing on chemical engineering, supplemented by theoretical chemistry, and part-time. Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management. After graduating from Lehigh University in 1918, Wu Chengluo continued his studies at Columbia University Graduate School. In 1920, he returned to his motherland and first taught at Fudan University in Shanghai. After 1921, he became a professor and director of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Beijing University of Technology. At the same time, he teaches part-time at Peking University and Beijing Normal University.
In 1927, Wu Chengluo was hired by Cai Yuanpei as secretary of the Nanjing National Government College. He assisted Cai Yuan in training a group of secretarial cadres, established new official document procedures, and created a new public education system. In 1928, the Grand College was abolished. He successively served as director of the Bureau of Weights and Measures of the Ministry of Industry and director of the Training Institute for Weights and Measures Calibration Personnel, director of the Central Industrial Experimental Institute, director of the Industrial Department of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and director of the Trademark Office.
While Wu Chengluo was serving at the Central Industrial Laboratory, the Japanese invaders launched the "December 28" Incident in Shanghai. He and Zhong Lin, an underground party member of the Communist Party of China, conducted research on smoke screens, poison gas, etc., and developed Gas masks, contributing to defense chemistry.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, in November 1937, the Nationalist Government moved westward to Chongqing. In order to protect a batch of precision instruments at the Nanjing Weights and Measures Calibration Training Institute, Wu Chengluo let others go first and waited for the instruments to be packed and moved westward before taking the train to Changsha.
During the Anti-Japanese War, Wu Chengluo served as the Director of the Industrial Department of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, organizing the relocation of important factories from the mainland to Sichuan. He also organized academic groups (such as the Chinese Chemical Society) to hold annual meetings and carry out academic activities. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Wu Chengluo served as director of the Trademark Office, in charge of trademark registration and invention patent work. This is the trademark certificate issued by Wu Chengluo that year!
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wu Chengluo served as the director of the Weights and Measures Division and the Director of the Invention Division of the Technology Administration Bureau of the Finance and Economics Committee of the Government Council, presiding over the establishment of weights and measures systems and standards. System, invention patent system and industrial experiment system, etc., have made contributions to the establishment and improvement of new China's measurement and patent systems.
On February 21, 1955, Wu Chengluo died of cancer in Beijing.