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FlyDed Sprayer
- Before 1927 – before 1959
Hand sprayer with wooden hand pump and metal canister labeled "FlyDed" in white text with blue outline on bright orange background. Green glass jar attached with metal screw cap at front end of sprayer.
- Subject Pests--Control, Pesticides, DDT (Insecticide), Insecticides
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Letter from Linus Pauling to Arnold O. Beckman
- 1954-Nov-24
This letter was written in response to Arnold O. Beckman's congratulations to Linus Pauling upon winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Addressee Beckman, Arnold O.
- Author Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994
- Subject Awards, Nobel Prize winners
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Memorandum about using police power to enforce air pollution regulations on the gas and oil industry
- 1956-Mar-23
The memo, authored by an unidentified individual with the initials "GGK" and informed by Felix Chappellett's memo, outlines a future relationship between industry and the Air Pollution Foundation. The memo suggests…
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Western Oil and Gas Association letter to the Air Pollution Policy Committee
- 1956-Mar-15
The letter suggests that the Air Pollution Foundation change its focus.
Felix Chappellett (1902–1976) spent three decades as an executive with the General Petroleum Corporation and later served as the vice president of…
- Addressee Air Pollution Policy Committee
- Author Chappellet, Felix
- Subject Environmental policy--Public relations, California--Los Angeles, Air--Pollution
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Lee de Forest and Jonathan Zenneck at a banquet
- 1956
Arnold O. Beckman arranged a banquet for Lee de Forest (seated), at which he and Jonathan Zenneck (standing) met in person for the first time since 1912.
Lee de Forest (1873–1961) was an inventor, most notably of…
- Photographer Photo Peuker
- Subject De Forest, Lee, 1873-1961, Dinners and dining
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Preliminary Instructions for Liston-Becker Exhaust Analyzer Model 28
- 1956
Beckman Instruments acquired Stamford, Connecticut-based Liston-Becker in 1955. The Model 28 exhaust analyzer went to market the same year.
Beckman Instruments, Inc. became interested in measuring, controlling, and…
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Memo from Don Strauss to Arnold O. Beckman
- 1956 Annual Report - Employee Relations
- 1956-Jul-20
The memo discusses a "favorable year in employee relations," including employees' reactions to new policies, the integration of newly acquired businesses, a supervisory training program, retirement benefits, health…
- Addressee Beckman, Arnold O.
- Author Strauss, Don
- Subject Employees, Personnel departments, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Institute of Biology Report on Centrifuge Questionnaire
- 1955
The respondents answered questions about the technical capabilities of centrifuges in their institutions, and also offered additional commentary.
Beckman Instruments began producing centrifuges after their January 1,…
- Creator Of Work Institute of Biology
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Biological laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Centrifuges
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Institute of Biology Report on pH Meter Questionnaire
- 1955
The questionnaire results identified pH meter features that would broadly appeal to biologists.
Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at the request of a chemist from the California citrus industry, who…
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The Hercules Mixer, Volume 27
- 1945-Jan – 1945-Dec
The Hercules Mixer was Hercules' in-house publication that provided both historical and technical information and also offered a glimpse of employees' day-to-day lives at the company. Portions of the June and October…
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The Hercules Mixer, Volume 26
- 1944-Jan – 1944-Dec
The Hercules Mixer was the Hercules Powder Company's in-house publication that provided both historical and technical information and also offered a glimpse of employees' day-to-day lives at the company. Portions of the…
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The Hercules Mixer, Volume 24
- 1942-Jan – 1942-Dec
The Hercules Mixer was the Hercules Powder Company's in-house publication that provided both historical and technical information and also offered a glimpse of employees' day-to-day lives at the company. Portions of the…
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The Hercules Mixer, Volume 23
- 1941-Jan – 1941-Dec
The Hercules Mixer was Hercules' in-house publication that provided both historical and technical information and also offered a glimpse of employees' day-to-day lives at the company. Portions of the February and…
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Toxaphene Agricultural Insecticides
- Part of 1951 Hercules Advertisements
- 1951
Printed advertisement for toxaphene depicts a book with the title Toxaphene Agricultural Insecticides with an airplane spraying insecticide on a farm. This advertisement appeared in Agricultural Chemicals.
Originally…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Research, Industrial, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Stop Insect Losses! Use Cotton Poisons the Right Way
- Part of 1951 Hercules Advertisements
- 1951
Printed advertisement for toxaphene depicts a man waving to a farmer driving a tractor spraying insecticide on cotton fields. This advertisement appeared in the Cotton Gin & Oil Mill Press, Cotton Trade Journal, and Oil…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Research, Industrial, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Not all weevils froze...
- Part of 1951 Hercules Advertisements
- 1951
Advertisement for toxaphene includes tagline "Not all weevils froze..." in bold. Paragraphs below tagline describe how boll weevils can survive cold winters therefore precipitating the need for using toxaphene as an…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Research, Industrial, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Toxaphene
- Part of 1951 Hercules Advertisements
- 1951
Advertisement for toxaphene depicts a canister of toxaphene superimposed over a photograph of a farm.
Originally trademarked by the Hercules Powder Company, Toxaphene was a synthetic organic insecticide toxicant…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Research, Industrial, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Approved toxaphene for the control of these pests
- Part of 1951 Hercules Advertisements
- 1951
Advertisement for toxaphene with an extended list of harmful insects that can be controlled through the use of toxaphene.
Originally trademarked by the Hercules Powder Company, Toxaphene was a synthetic organic…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Research, Industrial, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Make the most from your cotton acreage this year
- Part of 1951 Hercules Advertisements
- 1951
Advertisement for toxaphene dusts/sprays depicts farmers with sacks labeled seed, fertilizer and insecticide.
Originally trademarked by the Hercules Powder Company, Toxaphene was a synthetic organic insecticide…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Research, Industrial, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Puts Punch in your fly sprays
- Part of 1951 Hercules Advertisements
- 1951
Advertisement for thanite DDT insecticide spray depicts a fly killed by the effects of the spray.
Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder Company (later Hercules Inc.)…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Chemical industry, Research, Industrial, Hercules Incorporated, DDT (Insecticide), Corporations, Naval stores, Thanite, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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1953 Entomology Program
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
Advertisement for Hercules Powder Company's sponsorship of the National 4-H Entomology Program for 1953 with a photograph of a boll weevil killed by toxaphene.
Originally trademarked by the Hercules Powder Company,…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, 4-H clubs, Hercules Incorporated, Insect pests, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial, Corporations
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Toxaphene Kills Insect Pests
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
Advertisement for toxaphene with a photograph of a dead boll weevil and an extended list of harmful insects that can be controlled through the use of toxaphene.
Originally trademarked by the Hercules Powder Company,…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Toxaphene Kills Insect Pests
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
Advertisement for toxaphene depicting various insects with an extended list of harmful insects that can be controlled through the use of toxaphene.
Originally trademarked by the Hercules Powder Company, Toxaphene was…- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Toxaphene Kills Cotton Insects
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
Advertisement featuring a billboard reading "Toxaphene kills cotton insects" with a depiction of a tuft of cotton wool. Two men are visible in the foreground, one holding a tuft of cotton wool.
Originally trademarked…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
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Toxaphene Socks 'Em
- Part of 1952 Hercules Advertisements
- 1952
Advertisement featuring a black and white photograph of a dead boll weevil with caption reading:
Close-up of a boll weevil, flat on its back – killed by toxaphene
Originally trademarked by the Hercules Powder Company,…
- Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
- Subject Toxaphene, Chemical industry, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Naval stores, Insecticides, Advertising, Industrial
