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32 items
High Explosives, Kinds, Grades and Brands, Important Properties of Each Kind and Class of Work to Which Each is Particularly Adapted
- 1921
Catalog advertising explosives manufactured and produced by the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Includes two sections, dynamite grade markings and monobels, duobels, and carbonites. Each provides discussion on the…
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2 items
Letter from Svante Arrhenius to Georg Bredig, February 26, 1921
- 1921-Feb-26
Letter from Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) to Georg Bredig (1868-1944). Contains personal updates about Arrhenius' family as well as updates about the Experimentalfältet (The Fields for Experiments at the Royal Swedish…
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Letter from Svante Arrhenius to Georg Bredig, March 1920
- 1920-Mar-26
In a letter to Georg Bredig (1868-1944), Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) shares personal and professional updates. He also reflects on current events, world politics, and European economics.
- Creator Of Work Arrhenius, Svante, 1859-1927
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Subject Arrhenius, Svante, 1859-1927, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Kapp Putsch (Germany : 1920), Chemists, World politics
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47 items
Set of Postcards depicting the Welsbach Factory in Gloucester, New Jersey
- 1890 – 1930
This set of postcards depicts the scenes from the Welsbach Incandescent Gas Lighting Company factory at Gloucester, New Jersey. Originally a set of 46 postcards, this collection is missing cards number 20 and 31. The…
- Contributor Welsbach Gas Light Company
- Subject Welsbach Gas Light Company, Employees, Incandescent gas-lighting, Incandescent gas-lighting--Fixtures, Lighting, Rare earth industry, Auer v. Welsbach, Carl (Auer von Welsbach), 1858-1929, Women employees, Rare earths, Machinery in the workplace, Machinery
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24 items
Reflex Inverted Gas Light Catalog
- 1890 – 1930
Welsbach aimed its Reflex line at the middle of the gas mantle market, priced below its Welco line but above its biggest selling models like the Number 4 mantle. Images in this catalog illustrate Welsbach's imagined…
- Creator Of Work Welsbach Gas Light Company
- Subject Welsbach Gas Light Company, Incandescent gas-lighting, Incandescent gas-lighting--Fixtures, Rare earth industry, Rare earths, Advertising, Auer v. Welsbach, Carl (Auer von Welsbach), 1858-1929, Gas-lighting, Interior lighting, Interior lighting--Design
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2 items
Carl Auer von Welsbach Cigarette Trading Card
- 1890 – 1930
Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858-1929) was a key figure in the history of rare earth elements. In 1885 he showed didymium was not an element, but an alloy of two elements that he named praseodymium and…
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Chemical Warfare
- 1921
Written by officers of the United States Army Chemical Warfare Service and National Research Council, Chemical Warfare serves to provide a historical sketch of the development and personnel of the Chemical Warfare…
- Author Fries, Amos A. (Amos Alfred), 1873-1963, West, Clarence J. (Clarence Jay), 1886-1953
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous -- War use., Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous, Chemical warfare, Chemical agents (Munitions), World War (1914-1918), Gas masks, Chlorine, Phosgene, Carbon monoxide, Smoke--Toxicology
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20 items
Design and Construction of Audion Amplifying Transformers, Radio and Audio Types
- Construction details and directions for making these two types of amplifying transformers
- 1920
Informational pamphlet discussing audion transformers suitable for use in the construction of amplifiers. The transformer described is said to amplify audio signals up to four hundred times. Describes the construction,…
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13 items
Dyestuffs for Wood Stains
- 1900s
Sample book for dyeing solutions on wood from the Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, a German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate. Contains dyeing instructions and sixty-four mounted wood…
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4 items
A Selection of Choice Recipes
- How's That, Grandma?
- 1920
A colorful printed booklet containing six recipes using and advertising Rumford Baking Powder. The cover image features a girl and her grandmother baking in the kitchen. Inside, recipes include the Rumford Biscuit, Corn…
- Printer American Lithographic Company
- Publisher Rumford Chemical Works
- Subject Cookbooks, Rumford Company, Baking powder, Recipes, Advertising--Baking powder, Baking, Baked products industry, Cooking, American
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Exterior view of Welsbach Gas Light Company facility
- 1920s
Photographic reproduction of an artist's rendering of the Welsbach Gas Light Company site located along the Delaware River in Gloucester City, New Jersey. From 1888 to 1940, the Welsbach Gas Light Company held…
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55 items
Welsbach Gas Light Company photograph album
- 1920s
Album containing 52 black and white photographs documenting various aspects of the production process at the Welsbach Gas Light Company site located along the Delaware River in Gloucester City, New Jersey. From 1888 to…
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Portrait of Charles Holmes Herty (1867-1938)
- 1920s
Portrait of chemist and industrial consultant Charles Holmes Herty (1867-1938) best known for his contributions to the turpentine and pulp industries in the United States.
Charles Holmes Herty was born on December 4,…
- Photographer Alman & Co.
- Subject Chemists, Portraits, Chemistry, Herty, Charles H. (Charles Holmes), 1867-1938, Turpentine industry and trade
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Portrait of Dr. Michael Somogyi (1883-1971)
- 1900 – 1925
Portrait of Dr. Michael Somogyi (1883-1971), a Hungarian American professor of biochemistry at the Washington University and Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, who prepared the first insulin treatment given to a child with…
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Women sorting out imperfect grains of smokeless powder at Hercules Powder Company's plant in Kenvil, New Jersey
- 1920
Image caption reads "girls sorting out imperfect grains of smokeless powder." Inset photograph caption states "smokeless powder manufacture under difficulties—during the severe winter of 1917-18; great banks of snow are…
- Author Williams, W. Bradford (William Bradford)
- Publisher University of Chicago. Press
- Subject Explosives, Military, United States. Army. Ordnance Department, Industries, Weapons industry, Defense industries, Military supplies, Military weapons, Hercules Powder Company, World War (1914-1918), Women employees
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Panoramic view of Hercules Powder Company's San Diego kelp plant in Potash, California
- 1920
Panoramic view of the Hercules Powder Company's San Diego kelp plant located in Potash, California. View includes kelp digestion tanks located in the left background. The converter building of the acetone group can be…
- Author Williams, W. Bradford (William Bradford)
- Publisher University of Chicago. Press
- Subject Explosives, Military, United States. Army. Ordnance Department, Industries, Weapons industry, Defense industries, Military supplies, Military weapons, Hercules Powder Company, World War (1914-1918), Acetone, Potash, Lacquer and lacquering
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Panoramic view of Hercules Power Company's smokeless powder plant in Nitro, West Virginia
- 1920
Panoramic views of the Hercules Powder Company's smokeless powder plant in Nitro, West Virginia. The operating area and company town can be seen in this panoramic view. The right hand portion of the upper view shows…
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Panoramic view of DuPont Company's plant in Haskell, New Jersey and Trojan Powder Company's plant in Seiple, Pennsylvania
- 1920
Panoramic view of the DuPont Company's smokeless powder plant in Haskell, New Jersey (top panorama) along with the plant of the Trojan Powder Company and Trojan Chemical Company located in Seiple, Pennsylvania (bottom…
- Author Williams, W. Bradford (William Bradford)
- Publisher University of Chicago. Press
- Subject Explosives, Military, United States. Army. Ordnance Department, Industries, Weapons industry, Defense industries, Military supplies, Military weapons, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, World War (1914-1918), Grenades
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Panoramic view of DuPont Company's plants in Hopewell, Virginia and Carney's Point, New Jersey
- 1920
Panoramic view of the DuPont Company's guncotton plant in Hopewell, Virginia (top panorama) along with their powder plant located in Carney's Point, New Jersey (bottom panorama).
DuPont Company's guncotton plant…
- Author Williams, W. Bradford (William Bradford)
- Publisher University of Chicago. Press
- Subject Explosives, Military, United States. Army. Ordnance Department, Industries, Weapons industry, Defense industries, Military supplies, Military weapons, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, World War (1914-1918)
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Panoramic view of DuPont Company's plant and community village at the Old Hickory powder plant near Nashville, Tennessee
- 1920
Panoramic view of DuPont Company's plant (top panorama) and community village (bottom panorama) at the Old Hickory powder plant near Nashville, Tennessee. The plant panorama shows the nitric acid plant, blending towers,…
- Author Williams, W. Bradford (William Bradford)
- Publisher University of Chicago. Press
- Subject Explosives, Military, United States. Army. Ordnance Department, Industries, Weapons industry, Defense industries, Military supplies, Military weapons, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, World War (1914-1918), Company towns
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Panoramic view of DuPont Company's Old Hickory powder plant near Nashville, Tennessee
- 1920
Panoramic view of DuPont Company's Old Hickory powder plant located near Nashville, Tennessee. The plant was built to produce 900,000 pounds of finished smokeless powder per day.
Top photograph includes the main power…
- Author Williams, W. Bradford (William Bradford)
- Publisher University of Chicago. Press
- Subject Explosives, Military, United States. Army. Ordnance Department, Industries, Weapons industry, Defense industries, Military supplies, Military weapons, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, World War (1914-1918)
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Panoramic view of DuPont Company's plants in Hopewell, Virginia and Parlin, New Jersey
- 1920
Panoramic view of the DuPont Company's guncotton plant in Hopewell, Virginia (top panorama) along with their powder plant located in Parlin, New Jersey (bottom panorama).
DuPont Company's guncotton plant located in…
- Author Williams, W. Bradford (William Bradford)
- Publisher University of Chicago. Press
- Subject Explosives, Military, United States. Army. Ordnance Department, Industries, Weapons industry, Defense industries, Military supplies, Military weapons, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, World War (1914-1918)
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History of the Manufacture of Explosives for the World War, 1917-1918
- 1920
Digitized in entirety, this illustrated work contains photographs and histories of companies that produced munitions for use in World War One. Includes the E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Pennsylvania Trojan…
- Author Williams, W. Bradford (William Bradford)
- Publisher University of Chicago. Press
- Subject Explosives, Military, United States. Army. Ordnance Department, Industries, Weapons industry, Defense industries, Military supplies, Military weapons, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Hercules Powder Company, Atlas Powder Company, Bethlehem Loading Company, World War (1914-1918)
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Du Pont Amber Pyralin advertisement with bride
- 1921
Color printed advertisement for Amber Pyralin, a brand name for Du Pont celluloid, depicts a bride holding a bouquet of flowers. An image of a brush, comb and mirror made with amber pyralin is depicted in the lower half…
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64 items
Die Farbenfibel
- The Color Guide
- 1921
Digitized in entirety, this German color guide features painted color swatches throughout the text. Sections include achromatic and chromatic colors, bright and dark shades, murky colors, as well as color harmony.
- Author Ostwald, Wilhelm, 1853-1932
- Publisher Unesma
- Subject Color, Colors--Analysis, Color--Analysis, Ostwald, Wilhelm, 1853-1932
