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11 items
Henry Earle Lumpkin Photograph Collection
This collection, digitized here in its entirety, consists of photographs associated with the use of mass spectrometry at the Humble Oil and Refining Company and Exxon laboratories located in Baytown, Texas. Dating from…
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44 items
Photographs from the Records of the Althouse, Bates, and Crompton Chemical Companies
This collection, digitized here in its entirely, consists of photographs of the laboratory apparatus and facilities used in the manufacture of dyes at the Althouse, Bates, and Crompton Chemical Companies. The…
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291 items
Dow Chemical Company Historical Image Collection
This archival collection consists of photographs and slides depicting the facilities, operations, and products of The Dow Chemical Company. The images primarily date from the second half of the 20th century, with the…
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2 items
Willliams-Miles Historical Collection
The reprints which make up this collection are closely associated with the Williams-Miles History of Chemistry Collection located at Harding University in Arkansas. It is a wide-ranging collection in both chronology and…
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13 items
Records of the Commission on Atomic Weights and Isotopic Abundances of IUPAC
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is an association of National Adhering Organizations, which represent the chemists of different member countries. IUPAC was founded in 1919 and its primary…
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4 items
Papers of Bernhard Witkop
This collection consists of material related to Bernhard Witkop's professional and personal relationship with the famed African American chemist, Percy Lavon Julian, primarily in the form of correspondence. Witkop also…
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4 items
Papers of Paul D. Bartlett
Paul Doughty Bartlett was a physical-organic chemist who was well known for his insights into the mechanics of organic reactions. Dr. Bartlett retired from Harvard University in 1975 after more than 40 years on the…
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3 items
Papers of Paul J. Flory
The Paul J. Flory papers afford the scholar a unique glimpse into the working life of an American chemist who was equally at home in the academic and the industrial sectors. Professor Flory carefully maintained his…
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64 items
Williams Haynes Portrait Collection
This collection, only a small portion of which is digitized here, consists of approximately 1,700 portraits of chemists, chemical industrialists, and notable individuals from chemical-related fields, including Leo…
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123 items
Fisher Collection
This collection ranges from oil paintings, woodcuts, and works on paper to 3D objects including laboratory glassware, commemorative medals, and scientific equipment. The highlight of this collection includes oil…
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28 items
Eddleman Collection
The Eddleman Collection contains oil paintings depicting early modern activities related to alchemy, the emerging sciences, and medicine, including distillation, early pharmacies, and medical shops by Dutch, Flemish,…
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48 items
Underwood & Underwood Stereographs of Manufacturing Industries
This collection, digitized here in its entirety, consists of 48 stereographs depicting various stages in the industrial manufacture of glass, steel, iron, and salt, published by Underwood & Underwood after 1895. The…
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2,508 items
Beckman Historical Collection
The Beckman Historical Collection contains the corporate records of the American scientific and medical instrument manufacturer Beckman Coulter, Incorporated and the personal papers of American scientist and…
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39 items
Norda Essential Oil and Chemical Company Photograph Collection
This collection, digitized here in its entirety, consists of black-and-white print photographs of the Norda Essential Oil and Chemical Company manufacturing and laboratory facilities in Boonton, New Jersey, circa…
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Chadian postage stamp commemorating Alexander Fleming's Nobel Prize in Medicine
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Depicts Alexander Fleming, who won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of penicillin.
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Envelope with postage stamps commemorating 1901 Nobel Prize laureates
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Depicts awardees of the 1901 Nobel Prizes: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in Physics, Sully Prudhomme in Literature, Emil von Behring in Physiology or Medicine, and Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff in Chemistry.
- Artist Åsberg, Stig, 1909-1968
- Engraver Wallhorn, Arne
- Subject Postage stamps, Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad, 1845-1923, Hoff, J. H. van 't (Jacobus Henricus), 1852-1911, Behring, Emil von, 1854-1917, Postmarks, Commemorative postage stamps, Science on postage stamps, Sully Prudhomme, 1839-1907, Nobel Prize winners, Cachets (Philately), First day covers (Philately)
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Postcard and French postage stamp commemorating Isaac Newton
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Depicts Isaac Newton.
- Artist Lalau, Maurice
- Engraver Munier, Pierre
- Subject Postage stamps, Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727, France, Postcards, Postmarks, Commemorative postage stamps, Science on postage stamps
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Arnold and Mabel Beckman with William and Mrs. Ballhaus at an unidentified anniversary dinner
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Dr. Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004) invented the first commercially successful electric pH meter in 1934 and thus began a long career manufacturing scientific and medical instruments with National Technical Laboratories,…
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Unidentified group of men associated with Beckman Instruments
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A group of eleven men, standing and crouching indoors in front of various pieces of unidentified scientific equipment.
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Unidentified group of men with Beckman IR5A infrared spectrophotometer
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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…
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Man kneeling beside an open manhole cover, using a Beckman Model 715 Process Oxygen Monitor
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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,…
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Coulter family portrait
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Joseph Coulter, Jr., Laura Coulter-Jones, Wallace Coulter, and Joseph Coulter III pose for a family portrait.
Wallace and Joseph Coulter founded the Coulter Corporation to market Coulter Counters, instruments for blood…
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Wallace and Joseph Coulter, seated
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Wallace H. Coulter (1913-1998) enumerated the Coulter Principle for counting and sizing particles suspended in a fluid. He patented the Coulter Counter for blood cell analysis in 1953.
Joseph R. Coulter, Jr.…
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Portrait of Joseph Coulter, Jr.
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Joseph R. Coulter, Jr. (1924-1995) co-founded Coulter Corporation with his brother, Wallace, in the 1950s. The company was acquired by Beckman Instruments in 1997.
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Beckman Oxidant Analyzer
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Acralyzers monitor and record low atmospheric concentrations of oxidants and oxides of nitrogen.
Beckman Instruments, Inc. became interested in measuring, controlling, and fighting air pollution in the late 1940s and…
- Photographer Hesketh, Dean D.
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Beckman Instruments, Inc., Air--Pollution--Measurement
