Date: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1948">1948</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1949">1949</span> - Science History Institute Digital Collections Search Results

2 items

Vessels (Containers), Medical instruments and apparatus

Bayer Aspirin Tin, 12 Tablet Size

1910 – 2007

Small, shallow, rectangular tin box containing medicine pills. Label on front of tin has yellow background with "12 Bayer-Tablets of Aspirin (5 grs. each)" in white text on brown background. Tin pillbox contains…

Manufacturer Bayer Company, Inc.
Subject Drugs, Medicine bottles, Bayer Company, Inc., Aspirin

2 items

Vessels (Containers), Medical instruments and apparatus

Bayer Aspirin Pillbox, 12 Tablet Size

1930 – 1949

Small, shallow, rectangular tin box containing medicine pills. Label on front of tin has yellow background with "12 Bayer-Tablets of Aspirin, 5 grs. each" in white text on brown background. Image of small round white…

Manufacturer Bayer Company, Inc.
Subject Drugs, Medicine bottles, Bayer Company, Inc., Aspirin

2 items

Vessels (Containers), Medical instruments and apparatus

Certified Pharmacal Company Aspirin Pillbox, 12 Tablet Size

1910 – 1950

Small, shallow, rectangular tin box containing medicine pills. Label on front of tin has yellow background with the company name in red. Name of medicine is printed in yellow on brown background on front of tin. Tin…

Manufacturer Certified Pharmacal Company
Subject Certified Pharmacal Company, Drugs, Medicine bottles, Aspirin

2 items

Vessels (Containers), Medical instruments and apparatus

Glass Bayer Aspirin Bottle, 300 Tablet Size

1910 – 2007

Glass Bayer aspirin bottle, 300 tablet size, contains white tablets.

Contributor Sterling Drug
Manufacturer Bayer Company, Inc.
Subject Sterling Drug, Drugs, Medicine bottles, Bayer Company, Inc., Aspirin

2 items

Vessels (Containers), Medical instruments and apparatus

Glass Bayer Aspirin Bottle, 200 Tablet Size

1910 – 2007

Glass Bayer aspirin bottle, 200 tablet size, contains white tablets.

Contributor Sterling Drug
Manufacturer Bayer Company, Inc.
Subject Sterling Drug, Drugs, Medicine bottles, Bayer Company, Inc., Aspirin

2 items

Vessels (Containers), Medical instruments and apparatus

Plastic Bayer Aspirin Bottle, 100 Tablet Size

1910 – 2007
1985

Plastic Bayer aspirin bottle, 100 tablet size, reads "Genuine Bayer Aspirin, Micro-Thin Coating".

Contributor Sterling Drug
Manufacturer Bayer Company, Inc.
Subject Sterling Drug, Drugs, Medicine bottles, Bayer Company, Inc., Aspirin

5 items

Scientific apparatus and instruments

Bausch & Lomb Duboscq Type Colorimeter

1940s

A: Cast iron base attached to a sloping cast iron upright supporting the reader, prisms, sample cups, plungers, and a mechanism for raising and lowering the sample cups; two metal knobs control the height of the sample…

Manufacturer Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
Subject Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, Colorimetry--Instruments, Colorimetry

18 items

Photographs, Illustrations

Early Beckman facilities, Pasadena and South Pasadena

Undated
1934 – 1935
1940
1946
1949
1950

A Pasadena garage was the first home of the National Postal Meter Company, founded by Arnold Beckman in 1934. The company soon became National Technical Laboratories, with a focus on pH meters. In 1935, the company…

Subject Factories, Buildings, Construction projects, Beckman Instruments, Inc.

11 items

Photographs

Arnold O. Beckman with employees

Circa 1940 – circa 1979

Though the photo set is identified as Beckman with "employees," some of the photographs depict ceremonies and visits to non-corporate locations, like CalTech. Some photographs are attributed, dated (1941, 1962, 1967),…

Photographer Romaine-Skelton, McClanahan, James, Illig, Russell
Subject Employees, Beckman, Arnold O., Scientific apparatus and instruments, Dinners and dining, Beckman Instruments, Inc.

Paintings

Alchemist in Green Using Bellows

Circa 1928 – 1965

An alchemist wearing a green robe uses a pair of bellows to control the heat of the fire beneath his crucible. Other vessels sit on the furnace at his side, and to his left a large still-head for distillation rests over…

After Teniers, David, 1610-1690
Subject Teniers, David, 1610-1690, Alchemy, Alchemy in art

Photographs

U.S. Department of Agriculture personnel

1940s

Group photograph of U.S. Department of Agriculture personnel at an unidentified facility. The individuals in the photograph are identified as follows:

Standing (left to right): Mr. Whittaker; Louise Gardner; J. R.…

Subject Employees, United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Women employees, United States. Department of Agriculture

"Bub" Duribilknit Supporter

1949

Advertisement by John B. Flaherty Co., Inc. in New York for the "Bub" Duribilknit supporter published in SPORT magazine. The "Bub" was a knitted athletic supporter made of surgical elastic. The supporter had a thick…

Subject Jockstraps

Farmers Report: More Meat, More Milk, More Eggs after Spraying with Pestroy

1949

Black and white print magazine advertisement for Pestroy insect spray. This ad appeared in The Country Gentleman, April 1949.

Subject Pesticides, DDT (Insecticide), Insecticides, Toxins

Photographs, Portraits

Portrait of James A. Rafferty (1886-1951)

1940s – circa

Portrait of James A. Rafferty (1886-1951). Rafferty was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 4th, 1886 and studied engineering and chemistry at the Lewis Institute of Technology. Following his graduation from Lewis in 1908,…

Subject Chemical industry, Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation, Chemists, Rafferty, James A., 1886-1951, Portraits, Industrialists

Photographs

Group photograph of DuPont "Type 9" textile team

1948

Group photograph of DuPont shift supervisors and foremen responsible for the development of the "Type 9" textile at the DuPont plant in Martinsville, Virginia. Team supervisor Joseph X. Labovsky is seated on the far…

Subject Employees, Nylon, Textile fibers, Synthetic, Labovsky, Joseph X., 1912-2013, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Portraits, Group

2 items

Business correspondence

Letter from Robert S. Mulliken to Harrison Shull, 1949

1949-Oct-18

Contains suggestions from Mulliken to Shull for changes in one of Shull's manuscripts.

Addressee Shull, Harrison
Author Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
Subject Shull, Harrison, Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, Wave functions, Quantum theory, Chemists, Physicists

2 items

Business correspondence

Letter from Harrison Shull to Robert S. Mulliken, 1949

1949-Sep-22

Concerns submission of a manuscript to Mulliken for review, and results of Shull's latest work on quantum theory.

Addressee Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
Author Shull, Harrison
Subject Shull, Harrison, Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, Quantum theory, Chemists, Physicists

2 items

Business correspondence

Letter from Robert S. Mulliken to Harrison Shull, 1948

1948-Jun-19

Contains comments on Shull's current research activities.

Addressee Shull, Harrison
Author Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
Subject Formaldehyde, Shull, Harrison, Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, Quantum theory, Chemists, Ethylene, Physicists

Photographs

Unidentified U.S.D.A. building

1940s – circa

Exterior view of an unidentified United States Department of Agriculture building. The building is believed to be part of the U.S.D.A.'s Agricultural Engineering Laboratory facility located in Beltsville, Maryland.