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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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Das Deutsche Farbenbuch
- The German Color Book
- 1923 – 1926
German publication features numerous color charts with painted color swatches from various German paint manufacturers. Book content includes backgrounds and information on purchasing colorants and paints; colors and…
- Author Trillich, Heinrich
- Publisher Heller, B.
- Subject Color, Paint, Varnish and varnishing, Varnish industry, Paint industry and trade
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Portrait of William Crookes, age 24
- 1856 (Date of sitting)
- 1923 (Date of publication)
Half-length photographic portrait of William Crookes taken in 1856, when sitter was 24 years old.
Plate from the biography of Sir William Crookes, a British chemist and physicist known for his work on spectroscopy. He…
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Portrait of William Crookes, age 57
- 1889 (Date of sitting)
- 1923 (Date of publication)
Half-length photographic portrait of William Crookes taken in 1889, when sitter was 57 years old.
Plate from the biography of Sir William Crookes, a British chemist and physicist known for his work on spectroscopy. He…
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Portrait of Sir William Crookes, O.M., age 79
- 1911 (Date of sitting)
- 1923 (Date of publication)
Portrait photograph frontispiece of Sir William Crookes taken in 1911, when sitter was 79 years old.
Plate from the biography of Sir William Crookes, a British chemist and physicist known for his work on spectroscopy.…
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The Life of Sir William Crookes, O.M., F.R.S.
- With a foreword by Sir Oliver Lodge
- 1923 (Date of publication)
Biography of Sir William Crookes, a British chemist and physicist known for his work on spectroscopy. He notably discovered thallium and conducted experiments on the properties of highly rarified gases, rare earth…
- Author Fournier d'Albe, E. E. (Edmund Edward), 1868-1933
- Publisher T. Fisher Unwin (Firm)
- Subject Spectrum analysis, Crookes, William, 1832-1919, Thallium
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Portrait of William Crookes as Hofmann's assistant
- 1850 (Date of sitting)
- 1923 (Date of publication)
Half-length photographic portrait of William Crookes seated next to a table containing a scientific instrument. Taken at age 18 when Crookes was August Wilhelm von Hofmann's assistant.
Plate from the biography of Sir…
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Original mass spectrograph
- Part of Isotopes
- 1922
Photographic reproduction of the original mass spectrograph set up in the Cavendish Laboratory in 1919 includes a lettered key outlining the components of the instrument.
Digitized in entirety, this work on isotopes…
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Positive ray parabolas
- Part of Isotopes
- 1922
Photographic reproductions of parabolas illustrate typical positive ray parabolas, multiply charged parabolas of mercury as well as parabolas of neon and lithium.
Digitized in entirety, this work on isotopes covers…
- Author Aston, Francis William, 1877-1945
- Publisher Edward Arnold (Publishers)
- Subject Spectrum analysis, Isotopes, Parabola, Mass spectrometry, Lithium, Radioactivity, Mercury, Neon
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Mass spectra analysis of neon, chlorine, argon, and krypton
- Part of Isotopes
- 1922
Mass spectra illustration depicts an analysis of elements including neon, chlorine, argon, and krypton.
Digitized in entirety, this work on isotopes covers topics including radioactive isotopes, positive rays, neon,…
- Author Aston, Francis William, 1877-1945
- Publisher Edward Arnold (Publishers)
- Subject Spectrum analysis, Isotopes, Neon, Mass spectrometry, Radioactivity
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Mass spectra analysis of mercury, boron, bromine, sulphur, and phosphorus
- Part of Isotopes
- 1922
Mass spectra illustration depicts an analysis of elements including mercury, boron, bromine, sulphur, and phosphorus.
Digitized in entirety, this work on isotopes covers topics including radioactive isotopes, positive…
- Author Aston, Francis William, 1877-1945
- Publisher Edward Arnold (Publishers)
- Subject Spectrum analysis, Isotopes, Neon, Phosphorus, Sulfur, Mass spectrometry, Radioactivity, Bromine, Boron, Mercury
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Isotopes
- 1922
Digitized in entirety, this work on isotopes covers topics including radioactive isotopes, positive rays, neon, the mass spectrograph, analysis of the elements, electrical theory of matter, atomic numbers, spectra and…
- Author Aston, Francis William, 1877-1945
- Publisher Edward Arnold (Publishers)
- Subject Spectrum analysis, Isotopes, Neon, Mass spectrometry, Radioactivity
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Daily weather map
- 1922
Daily weather map of the United States with symbols indicating the state of weather as well as isobars and isotherms illustrated by continuous or dotted lines, respectively. Arrows denote wind direction.
Illustration…
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts metropolitan water district/Wachusett, Sudbury and Cochituate watersheds
- 1922
Map illustrating the Wachusett, Sudbury and Cochituate watersheds with the reservoirs, aqueducts and pipe pines that supply water to Boston, Massachusetts. Caption reads "This is one of the greatest water systems of the…
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Percentage composition of foods
- 1922
Scientific diagram illustrates the percentage composition of foods including a pork chop, cod, egg, cream cheese, bean and bread. Illustrations are after the charts created by Charles Ford Langworthy of the United…
- After Langworthy, C. F. (Charles Ford), 1864-1932
- Author Tower, Samuel Francis
- Publisher D.C. Heath and Company
- Subject Science--Experiments, Science--Study and teaching, Middle school education, Langworthy, C. F. (Charles Ford), 1864-1932, Food--Composition, Education, Secondary, Textbooks, Science
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Percentage composition of foods
- 1922
Scientific diagram illustrates the percentage composition of foods including corn, potato, onion, apple, peanut butter and olive oil. Illustrations are after the charts created by Charles Ford Langworthy of the United…
- After Langworthy, C. F. (Charles Ford), 1864-1932
- Author Tower, Samuel Francis
- Publisher D.C. Heath and Company
- Subject Science--Experiments, Science--Study and teaching, Middle school education, Langworthy, C. F. (Charles Ford), 1864-1932, Food--Composition, Education, Secondary, Textbooks, Science
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The Science of Common Things; a Textbook of General Science
- 1922
Junior high school/high school-level textbook on science with topics including air; food; water; weather; fire; heating, lighting and electricity within homes; clothing and microscopic organisms. Begins with a foreword…
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Electrical wiring diagram for doorbells
- 1922
Printed photographic reproduction illustrating two wiring plans for a doorbell: one bell and two push buttons with either button ringing the bell, the other showing two bells and two push buttons with each button…
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Students gather around a teacher who is conducting a scientific experiment
- 1922
Junior high school or high school-aged male students gather around a teacher who is conducting a scientific experiment. Several students have their hands raised. Pennants on the wall list "Pioneer Science Club" and…
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Employee using titration apparatus at Dearborn laboratory facility
- 1920s
General view of an unidentified employee at work in the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street Laboratory facility and manufacturing plant. A variety of titration equipment and other scientific apparatus are visible on…
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Employee at work in Dearborn laboratory facility
- 1920s
General view of employee Al Herman analyzing an unidentified substance at the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street laboratory facility and manufacturing plant. Assorted scientific apparatus and laboratory glassware…
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Employee at work in Dearborn laboratory facility
- 1920s
General view of an unidentified employee analyzing an unidentified substance at the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street laboratory facility and manufacturing plant. A microscope and water quality test kit are…
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Portrait of John Edgar Teeple (1874-1931)
- 1920s
Portrait of American chemist John Edgar Teeple (1874 – 1931), best known for his discovery of a process for separating potash from borax.
John Edgar Teeple was born on January 4, 1874 in Kempton, Illinois and educated…
