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The Chemistry of Health
- 1941
Color print advertisement for the Dow Chemical Company featuring an image of a young girl on a seesaw. The accompanying text details various applications of Dow products, including vitamins, fumigation, waste disposal,…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Public health, Chemical industry, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Advertising, Children in advertising, Advertising, Industrial
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8 items
How to Apply Dowflake
- The Dow Chemical Company, Circular No. 7, 1925
- 1925
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Calcium chloride
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16 items
How to Apply Dowflake
- The Dow Chemical Company, Circular No. 7, 1926
- 1926
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Calcium chloride
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3 items
They Came Back to Saganashkee
- Advertisement for Dow herbicide
- 1966
Transparency copy of a print advertisement for Dowpon, a herbicide marketed and sold by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features an illustration of several waterfowl, with accompanying text detailing the…
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Snowy Egrets Watched the Men in the Marsh
- Advertisement for Dow insecticide
- 1966
Transparency copy of a print advertisement for Dursban, an insecticide marketed and sold by the Dow Chemical Company for use against mosquitoes. The advertisement features an illustration of several snowy egrets in a…
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Dowicide: A Look at Chemical Warfare
- 1941 – 1945
Advertisement for Dowicides, the trade name for a group of fungicide chemicals manufactured and marketed by the Dow Chemical Company as tools to prevent mold and decay. The advertisement features an army transport…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Chemical industry, Dow Chemical Company, World War (1939-1945), Corporations, Advertising, Humidity--Control, Fungicides
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Ethofoil: For the Prize Package
- 1940
Advertisement for Ethofoil, a film development of Ethyl Cellulose manufactured and marketed by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement details the application of Ethofoil to produce durable packaging resistant to…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Chemical industry, Ethylcellulose, Plastics in packaging, Corporations, Advertising, Dow Chemical Company
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2 items
Beckman/SDS Integrated Computer System press release
- 1964-Apr-21
The press release announces the release of a commercial solid-state computer system including a Beckman 2200 analog computer and Scientific Data Systems 920 digital computer.
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Woman using Beckman/SDS Integrated Computer System
- 1964
The commercial solid-state computer system included a Beckman 2200 analog computer and Scientific Data Systems 920 digital computer.
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Invention Disclosure: Generalized Flow Monitoring
- 5D-668
- 1963-Oct
The invention disclosure for use in gas chromatography documents some of James C. Sternberg's early work for Beckman Instruments. Robert S. Litle and W. S. Gallaway signed this disclosure as witnesses.
Beckman…
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11 items
Account of Beckman Instruments sales trip to China
- 1975
Ed Cherniss, a Beckman executive, recounts his trip to China in the spring of 1975. (The first page is a photocopy.)
Beckman Instruments and its Research & Industrial Instrumentation Company (RIIC) exhibited passive…
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7 items
Patent for Hydrogen Tube
- 1949-Mar-08
Patent #2,463,743 for a hydrogen tube designed by H. Howard Cary and Warren Baxter during their time at National Technical Labs, a precursor to Beckman Instruments. This tube was designed for use in UV…
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9 items
Technical Report: Evaluation of the Beckman Oxygen Electrode and Portable Oxygen Meter (OM-1)
- No. T-8-(R)
- 1957-May-23
The report evaluates the portable OM-1 oxygen meter, deeming it convenient and moderately precise, but sensitive to temperature fluctuations.
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Platinum oxygen electrode assembly drawing
- Dwg. No. 18617
- 1957-Apr-22
This oxygen electrode was first used inside Beckman Instruments pH meters and later in many other instruments.
- Creator Of Work Solesbee, B.
- Subject Electrodes, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Electrodes, Glass, Electrodes, Platinum, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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44 items
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Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
- 1652 (MDCLII)
First published in 1652, this compilation of English alchemical literature was collected and annotated by Elias Ashmole. The book made available many works that had previously existed only in privately held manuscripts,…
- Creator Of Work Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692
- Printer Grismond, John
- Subject Alchemy, Alchemy--Early works to 1800
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Touching Sir Edward Kelley, he was borne at Worcester, the scheame of whose Nativity (Graved from the Originall Calculation of Doctor Dee, and under his Hand) I here Exhibite.
- Part of Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
- 1652 (MDCLII)
- Creator Of Work Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692
- Printer Grismond, John
- Subject Alchemy
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Here followeth the Figure conteyning [containing] all the secrets of the Treatise both great & small
- Part of Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
- 1652 (MDCLII)
Engraved diagram from George Ripley's The Compound of Alchymie. Known as Ripley's Wheel, the drawing depicts concentric planetary spheres along with his alchemical recipes.
- Author Ripley, George, -1490?
- Creator Of Work Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692
- Engraver Goddard, John, active 1645-1671
- Printer Grismond, John
- Subject Alchemy
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Alchemical laboratory
- Part of Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
- 1652 (MDCLII)
This 17th-century engraving is from Thomas Norton's The Ordinall of Alchimy and was made after a 15th-century illuminated manuscript (now preserved in the British Library). Norton, a practicing alchemist, depicts an…
- Author Norton, Thomas, active 1477
- Creator Of Work Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692
- Engraver Vaughan, Robert, 1597-1663
- Printer Grismond, John
- Subject Alchemy
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Title page from Elias Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
- Part of Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
- 1652 (MDCLII)
The engraved emblem on the lower half of this title page was made after a 15th-century illuminated manuscript (now preserved in the British Library) and depicts an eagle, snake, and toad against a solar and lunar…
- Creator Of Work Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692
- Engraver Vaughan, Robert, 1597-1663
- Printer Grismond, John
- Subject Alchemy, Title pages
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Alchemical master and disciple
- Part of Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
- 1652 (MDCLII)
This 17th-century engraving is from Thomas Norton's The Ordinall of Alchimy and was made after a 15th-century illuminated manuscript (now preserved in the British Library). Norton, a practicing alchemist, depicts the…
- Author Norton, Thomas, active 1477
- Creator Of Work Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692
- Engraver Vaughan, Robert, 1597-1663
- Printer Grismond, John
- Subject Alchemy
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70 items
Palmer's New Catalogue, with Three Hundred Engravings of Apparatus, Illustrative of Chemistry, Pneumatics, Frictional and Voltaic Electricity, Electro Magnetism, Optics, &c.
- 1840
Regarded as the earliest, freely-accessible sales catalog of commercially available chemicals and scientific apparatus, Palmer's New Catalogue by Edward Palmer (1803-1872) provides insight into the costs and…
- Author Palmer, Edward, 1803-1872
- Printer Gilbert, William
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Barometers, Commercial catalogs, Drawing instruments, Electric machines, Magneto-electric machines, Electric batteries, Microscopes, Telescopes, Eyeglasses, Thermometers, Scientific apparatus and instruments industry
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Plate No. 12: Medicinal Plants
- Part of The Book of Health
- 1898
Depicts mullein, rosemary, nettle, and deadly nightshade.
- Author Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904
- Publisher W.P. Mason
- Subject Rosemary, Medicine, Medicinal plants, Mulleins, Medicine, Popular, Belladonna (Plant), Nettles
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Plate No. 9: Medicinal Plants
- Part of The Book of Health
- 1898
Depicts peony, St. John's wort, aconite or monkshood, and lily of the valley.
- Author Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904
- Publisher W.P. Mason
- Subject Medicine, Monkshoods, Lilies-of-the-valley, Hypericum, Peonies, Medicinal plants, Medicine, Popular
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6 items
Three-dimensional anatomical diagram of human head
- Part of The Book of Health
- 1885
Three-dimensional color diagram of human head consisting of hinged, paper flap overlays. A form of anatomical illustration in use as early as 1538, the overlays progressively fold back to reveal the interior and major…
- Author Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904
- Creator Of Work West, James J., Yaggy, L. W. (Levi W.)
- Publisher W.P. Mason
- Subject Skull--Study and teaching, Human anatomy, Phrenology, Medicine, Popular, Phrenology--Study and teaching, Human anatomy--Study and teaching