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Dow Chemical Company saran film manufacturing facilities
- 1951
General view of employees at work in the Dow Chemical Company's saran film manufacturing facilities in Midland, Michigan. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport during World War…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
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4 items
Instructions for Operating the Beckman Model H pH Meter
- Bulletin 168-B
- 1950-Oct
Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at the request of a chemist from the California citrus industry, who needed an accurate way to measure the acidity of his product. The resulting instrument kicked off…
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Vanadium Corporation mine in Jumasha, Peru
- 1950
General view of the Vanadium Corporation of America mining facilities located in Jumasha, Peru. Vanadium, a malleable transition metal, was discovered in its natural state in Mexico by Spanish-Mexican scientist,…
- Creator Of Work Vanadium Corporation of America
- Subject Vanadium Corporation of America, Steel alloy industry, Peru, Mineral industries, Mines and mineral resources, Vanadium
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Vanadium Corporation White Canyon plant
- 1953 – 1963
General view of a section of the Vanadium Corporation of America facilities near White Canyon in San Juan County, Utah. Uranium and vanadium were mined from the sandstone canyons and used to produce crude vanadium oxide…
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Emily Port inserting plug and bridge wire into electric blasting caps
- 1954
General view of employee Emily Port inserting plugs and bridge wires into the shells of electric blasting caps manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part of an…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer O'Neill, James J.
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Women employees, Port, Emily
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Bertha Warren trimming platinum wires at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1954
General view of employee Bertha Warren using embroidery scissors to trim platinum wires used in the electric blasting caps manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Formed in 1912 as part…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer O'Neill, James J.
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Women employees, Warren, Bertha
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Soldering wire at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1954
Close-up view of employee Mildred Best soldering platinum bridge wires across the two ends of the lead wires used in the electric blasting caps manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York.…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer O'Neill, James J.
- Subject Detonators, Chemical industry, Solder and soldering, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives
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Mix house apparatus at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1954
General view of a rubber mat apparatus used to mix Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) with graphite for use in the electric blasting caps produced at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. The…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer O'Neill, James J.
- Subject Pentaerythritol tetranitrate, Detonators, Chemical industry, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Graphite, Corporations, Explosives
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Benny Williams working in mix house at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1954
General view of mix house group leader Benny Williams mixing Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) with graphite for use in the electric blasting caps produced at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York.…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer O'Neill, James J.
- Subject Pentaerythritol tetranitrate, Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Graphite, Corporations, Explosives, Machinery, Williams, Benny
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James Fiore transferring dry powder at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1954
General view of employee James (Jay) Fiore transferring dry powder from the dry house to the mix house at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Notably, the powder, which was used in the manufacture…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer O'Neill, James J.
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Fiore, James
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Plastic extrusion machine at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1954
Close-up view of a plastic extrusion machine used to coat and insulate wires at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. As visible in the photograph, ethyl cellulose was heated and then extruded as…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer O'Neill, James J.
- Subject Detonators, Chemical industry, Extrusion process, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Plastics--Extrusion, Machinery
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Ed Reis working with wire-cutting spool rack at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1954
General view of employee Ed Reis guiding plastic insulated wire from spool rack to cutting board during the manufacture of electric blasting caps at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. Prior to…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer O'Neill, James J.
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Reis, Ed
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Harold Struber and Art Slater cutting and bundling wires at Hercules Port Ewen plant
- 1954
General view of employees Harold Struber (background) and Art Slater (foreground) cutting and bundling wires during the assembly of electric blasting caps at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York.
…- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Photographer O'Neill, James J.
- Subject Detonators, Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Struber, Harold, Slater, Art
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The Development of pH Instrumentation
- 1950-Apr
Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at the request of a chemist from the California citrus industry, who needed an accurate way to measure the acidity of his product. The resulting instrument kicked off…
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D2 Oxygen Analyzer for Safe Oxygen Therapy
- Product Data Sheet O2—8120
- 1950s
Developed from a Linus Pauling design during WWII, the technology behind Beckman Instruments’ oxygen analyzers ended up doing such diverse jobs as monitoring astronauts’ respiration, maintaining packaged food safety,…
- Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, Inc.
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Oxygen--Measurement, Oxygen--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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18 items
Beckman Infrared Spectrophotometer Model IR-2
- 1946 – 1955
The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold O. Beckman in 1942, asking for an infrared spectrophotometer that they could use to create rubber. Under this…
- Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, Inc.
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Spectrophotometer, Infrared spectroscopy, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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The Three Missing Decades
- 1954-Sep-26
These handwritten notes on glass electrodes appear to be signed Noel B. Brayman.
Glass electrodes were used in Beckman pH meters and various other instruments.
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Beckman Helipot Plant, South Pasadena, California
- Circa 1950
This is Helipot Corporation's Meridian Avenue location.
The Helipot Corporation was founded during World War II by Arnold O. Beckman of Beckman Instruments (at that time still National Technical Laboratories) to keep…
- Subject Factories, Buildings, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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5 items
Beckman Facilities, Munich, Germany
- Circa 1953
- 1955
- 1956
The construction of Beckman's Munich plant began in 1953. It housed the company's first overseas subsidiary, Beckman Instruments GmbH, and was the first U.S. plant built in Bavaria following World War II.
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- Photographer Bertram, Hans
- Subject Factories, Construction projects, Portraits, Group, Aerial photographs, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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8 items
Beckman Model R Paper Electrophoresis System
- Circa 1954
Electrophoresis in general uses an electric field to separate particles in a medium (like a gel) based on their size, charge, or a binding affinity. This instrument, developed by Spinco in 1954, contained three…
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Beckman Model E Analytical Ultracentrifuge
- 1950s
Beckman Instruments began producing centrifuges after their January 1, 1955 acquisition of industry leader, Specialized Instruments Corporation, or Spinco. With Spinco came the famous Model E Ultracentrifuge, which was…
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2 items
Beckman Model 144 UV Photometer
- 1950 – 1979
Photometers measure the intensity of light or optical properties (like illuminance and fluorescence) of surfaces and solutions.
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7 items
Memo from T. H. Lotze to L. R. Pugh
- Precision pH control by precision buffer control
- 1952-Feb-25
The memo describes problems Eastman Kodak encountered with buffer solutions and the suggestion that the Model H-2 pH meter might be adapted for Kodak's applications. Lotze appears to be the creator of images as well as…
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Instructions for converting new style wavelength drive to be used with old style single unit amplifier
- 1954-May-07
The drawing documents the modifications needed to use a new wavelength drive with the IR-2 spectrophotometer.
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Diagram of special demountable reference electrodes
- 1952-Jul-18
The illustration depicts glass electrodes that could be used with the Beckman Model G pH meter.
Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at the request of a chemist from the California citrus industry, who…
