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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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LifeStraw personal water filter
- 2007
Plastic tube with purple flip cap. Hollow fibers inside tube filters contaminants from water. Purple string attached to one end of tube.
LifeStraw is a personal and mobile water purification tool developed as a…
- Manufacturer Vestergaard Frandsen
- Subject Water--Purification, Water filters
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3 items
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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Total immersion mercury thermometer
- 1800s
A: Bulb containing mercury attached to a glass tube of narrow diameter. Thermometer has Celsius scale with 20-30 degree range with major divisions every 1 degree and minor divisions every 0.1 degree.
B: Protective…
- Subject Temperature measurements, Thermometers
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Mercury thermometer
- 1800s
A: Bulb containing mercury attached to a glass tube of narrow diameter. Thermometer has Celsius scale with 0-100 degree range.
B: Protective cardboard tube for the thermometer (not digitized).
Partial immersion…
- Subject Temperature measurements, Thermometers
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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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12 items
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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20 items
Arnold and Mabel Beckman at an unidentified event
- 1970s
The numbered series of photographs shows the Beckmans at an unidentified event, formal enough that name tags are involved, but in a setting that could be a private home.
- Subject Beckman, Arnold O., Parties, Executives' spouses
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Tasita filter holder
- Keystone funnel
- 2016
A: Blue plastic funnel with B: cap used to hold filter paper. Funnel is designed to fit on two 2-liter soda bottles (with cap on) or on the top of a jerrycan (without cap).
In 2016 Dr. Theresa Dankovish's company,…
- Manufacturer Folia Water
- Subject Water--Purification, Water filters
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7 items
The Hercules Mixer, Volume 54
- 1972-Jan – 1972-Dec
The Hercules Mixer was the 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 Number 1 and 3…
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6 items
The Hercules Mixer, Volume 49
- 1967-Jan – 1967-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 January-February…
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10 items
The Hercules Mixer, Volume 48
- 1966-Mar – 1966-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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10 items
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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15 items
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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6 items
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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12 items
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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The Saran-Wrap Process (Dow Chemical Company)
- 1965
Illustrated depiction of the production of Saran Wrap at the Dow Chemical Company in three stages. Stage 1 depicts the harvesting of raw materials, including petroleum and brine, and the manufacture of assorted…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Industries, Extrusion process, Dow Chemical Company, Consumer goods, Plastics--Extrusion, Plastics industry and trade
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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