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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 8: Rockets

  • Part of Vollenkommene Unterweisung, wie Raketen, Feuer- Wasser- Sturm-Kugeln, Granaten, Pech-Sturm-Kräntze, und allerhand Lust und Ernsthaffte Feuer-wercke zubereiten

  • 1660

  Figs. 17 B-C: Rocket with external pyrotechnic cases and its parts.
  Fig. 18 A: Rocket with fiery rain.
  Fig. 19: Rocket with fins.

  • Engraver Brawe, Hermann
  • Publisher Schwänder, Johann Georg
  • Subject Rocketry, Ordnance, Explosives, Artillery, Fireworks
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 9: Instruments for launching rockets

  • Part of Vollenkommene Unterweisung, wie Raketen, Feuer- Wasser- Sturm-Kugeln, Granaten, Pech-Sturm-Kräntze, und allerhand Lust und Ernsthaffte Feuer-wercke zubereiten

  • 1660

  Fig. 19 B: Platform for launching rocket with fins (figure 19).
  Fig. 20: Tube for launching rocket.

  • Engraver Brawe, Hermann
  • Publisher Schwänder, Johann Georg
  • Subject Rocketry, Ordnance, Explosives, Artillery
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 6: Instruments for rocket making and launching

  • Part of Vollenkommene Unterweisung, wie Raketen, Feuer- Wasser- Sturm-Kugeln, Granaten, Pech-Sturm-Kräntze, und allerhand Lust und Ernsthaffte Feuer-wercke zubereiten

  • 1660

  Fig. 13: Rocket mounted to a stick.
  Fig. 14: Launch platform for figure 13.
  Fig. 15: Machine for boring into rockets.

  • Engraver Brawe, Hermann
  • Publisher Schwänder, Johann Georg
  • Subject Rocketry, Ordnance, Explosives, Artillery
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 7: Rockets

  • Part of Vollenkommene Unterweisung, wie Raketen, Feuer- Wasser- Sturm-Kugeln, Granaten, Pech-Sturm-Kräntze, und allerhand Lust und Ernsthaffte Feuer-wercke zubereiten

  • 1660

  Figs. 16 A-C: Rockets with internal pyrotechnic cases.
  Fig. 17 A: Rocket with external pyrotechnic cases.

  • Engraver Brawe, Hermann
  • Publisher Schwänder, Johann Georg
  • Subject Rocketry, Ordnance, Explosives, Artillery
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 5: Instruments for rocket making

  • Part of Vollenkommene Unterweisung, wie Raketen, Feuer- Wasser- Sturm-Kugeln, Granaten, Pech-Sturm-Kräntze, und allerhand Lust und Ernsthaffte Feuer-wercke zubereiten

  • 1660

  Figs. 11 A-C: Tools to choke the neck of a paper rocket case.
  D: Mallet to fill rocket.
  E: Scale to calculate the size of a lead ball.

  • Engraver Brawe, Hermann
  • Publisher Schwänder, Johann Georg
  • Subject Rocketry, Ordnance, Explosives, Artillery, Weights and measures
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 3: Rocket mold

  • Part of Vollenkommene Unterweisung, wie Raketen, Feuer- Wasser- Sturm-Kugeln, Granaten, Pech-Sturm-Kräntze, und allerhand Lust und Ernsthaffte Feuer-wercke zubereiten

  • 1660

  • Engraver Brawe, Hermann
  • Publisher Schwänder, Johann Georg
  • Subject Rocketry, Ordnance, Explosives, Artillery
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 4: Instruments for rocket making

  • Part of Vollenkommene Unterweisung, wie Raketen, Feuer- Wasser- Sturm-Kugeln, Granaten, Pech-Sturm-Kräntze, und allerhand Lust und Ernsthaffte Feuer-wercke zubereiten

  • 1660

  Fig. 10 A: Rod to wind paper casings.
  B: Rod to tamp powder.
  C: Mallet.
  D: Disk used in filling rocket casings.
  Also depicted: Boring tool.

  • Engraver Brawe, Hermann
  • Publisher Schwänder, Johann Georg
  • Subject Rocketry, Ordnance, Explosives, Artillery
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 2: Metal pipkin with lid and rod for cooking explosives

  • Part of Vollenkommene Unterweisung, wie Raketen, Feuer- Wasser- Sturm-Kugeln, Granaten, Pech-Sturm-Kräntze, und allerhand Lust und Ernsthaffte Feuer-wercke zubereiten

  • 1660

  • Engraver Brawe, Hermann
  • Publisher Schwänder, Johann Georg
  • Subject Ordnance, Explosives, Artillery
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate 1: Instrument to gauge explosive thrust

  • Part of Vollenkommene Unterweisung, wie Raketen, Feuer- Wasser- Sturm-Kugeln, Granaten, Pech-Sturm-Kräntze, und allerhand Lust und Ernsthaffte Feuer-wercke zubereiten

  • 1660

  • Engraver Brawe, Hermann
  • Publisher Schwänder, Johann Georg
  • Subject Ordnance, Explosives, Artillery, Weights and measures
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  Photographs

  Front entrance of National Technical Laboratories

  • Part of National Technical Laboratories in winter

  • 1948

  Front entrance of National Technical Laboratories in South Pasadena.

  • Photographer Rohrer, Larry
  • Subject Factories, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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  9 items
  Rare books

  Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier

  • Description of the aerostatic machine experiments of Mr. & Mr. Montgolfier

  • 1783

  Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond’s Description des expériences assembles first-hand observations, research, technical descriptions, letters, tables, diagrams, and illustrations related to the groundbreaking experiments…

  • Author Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819
  • Publisher Cuchet
  • Subject Robert, Nicolas Louis, 1761-1828, Airships, Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne, 1745-1799, Aeronautics, Charles, Jacques Alexandre César, 1746-1823, Ballooning, Hot air balloons, Robert, Anne-Jean, 1758-1820, Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810
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  Photographs

  Snack bar of National Technical Laboratories

  • Part of National Technical Laboratories in winter

  • 1948

  Snack bar of National Technical Laboratories in South Pasadena.

  • Photographer Rohrer, Larry
  • Subject Factories, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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  Photographs

  View to the west of National Technical Laboratories

  • Part of National Technical Laboratories in winter

  • 1948

  View to the west of National Technical Laboratories in South Pasadena.

  • Photographer Rohrer, Larry
  • Subject Factories, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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  Photographs

  Northwest parking lot of National Technical Laboratories

  • Part of National Technical Laboratories in winter

  • 1948

  Northwest parking lot of National Technical Laboratories in South Pasadena.

  • Photographer Rohrer, Larry
  • Subject Factories, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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  Photographs

  Parking lot on the north side of National Technical Laboratories

  • Part of National Technical Laboratories in winter

  • 1948

  Parking lot on the north side of National Technical Laboratories in South Pasadena.

  • Photographer Rohrer, Larry
  • Subject Factories, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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  Photographs

  Shipping department of National Technical Laboratories

  • Part of National Technical Laboratories in winter

  • 1948

  Shipping department of National Technical Laboratories in South Pasadena.

  • Photographer Rohrer, Larry
  • Subject Factories, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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  6 items
  Photographs

  National Technical Laboratories in winter

  • 1948 (Winter)

  Photographs of the snow-covered National Technical Laboratories on Mission Street in South Pasadena.

  • Photographer Rohrer, Larry
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  Rare books, Engravings

  Plate I: Couleurs d'un spectre solaire

  • Colors of the Solar Spectrum

  • Part of Des couleurs et de leurs applications aux arts industriels à l'aide des cercles chromatiques

  • 1864

  Inscribed: "Couleurs d’un spectre solaire produit par un prisme de sulfure de carbone comparées aux types du premier cercle chromatique de Mr. E. Chevreul."

  The plate indicates colors from Chevreul’s "first chromatic…

  • Author Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889
  • Engraver Digeon, René Henri
  • Printer Of Plates Lamoureux
  • Publisher J.-B. Baillière et fils
  • Subject Color--Terminology, Color separation, Colors, Color printing
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  24 items
  Rare books

  Artis Magnae Artilleriae

  • The Great Art of Artillery

  • 1650

  Kazimierz Siemienowicz's treatise was used for over a century as a basic manual on artillery, rocketry, and pyrotechnics. It was originally published in Latin (1650) and was translated into French (1651), German (1676),…

  • Author Siemienowicz, Kazimierz, -1651?
  • Publisher Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664
  • Subject Rocketry, Gunpowder, Ordnance, Artillery, Fireworks, Weights and measures
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  Photographs, Portraits

  Arnold O. Beckman and William Ballhaus

  • 1967

  Dr. Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004) invented the first commercially successful electric pH meter in 1934 and thus began a long career manufacturing scientific and medical instruments with National Technical Laboratories,…

  • Subject Scientists--Portraits, Beckman, Arnold O., Ballhaus, William F., 1918-, Chief executive officers, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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  Photographs, Portraits

  Arnold O. Beckman and William Ballhaus

  • 1967

  Dr. Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004) invented the first commercially successful electric pH meter in 1934 and thus began a long career manufacturing scientific and medical instruments with National Technical Laboratories,…

  • Subject Scientists--Portraits, Beckman, Arnold O., Ballhaus, William F., 1918-, Chief executive officers, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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  2 items
  Textile fabrics, Clothing and dress

  Jogbra

  • 1977 – 1979

  Invented by Lisa Lindahl and Polly Smith in 1977, the Jogbra was the first sports bra. Lindahl and Smith's initial prototype was in the style of two jockstraps sewn together to create a crude brassiere with two pouches…

  • Manufacturer Jogbra, Inc.
  • Subject Jogbra, Inc., Athletics--Equipment and supplies, Brassieres, Women athletes, Exercise, Women inventors, Women--Health and hygiene
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  2 items
  Textile fabrics, Clothing and dress

  Bike Swimmer/Jogger Athletic Supporter

  • Undated

  • Manufacturer Bike Athletic Company
  • Subject Athletics--Equipment and supplies, Jockstraps, Bike Athletic Company
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  2 items
  Scientific apparatus and instruments, Electronics

  Students' Potentiometer

  • 1950s

  Potentiometers are used to measure electromotive force (emf) by balancing it with a known emf. The concept was first developed in 1841 by J. C. Poggendorff and improved throughout the 19th century by Latimer Clark and…

  • Manufacturer Leeds and Northrup Company
  • Subject Potentiometer, Leeds and Northrup Company
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  Chemistry sets

  Chemcraft An Introduction to the Wonders of Modern Chemistry

  • Undated

  Chemistry sets reached their heyday in the 1950s, but production of them began in the United States during World War I. Playing with a toy chemistry set inspired many a boy to become a chemist, and not until the late…

  • Manufacturer Porter Chemical Company
  • Subject Chemistry sets, Porter Chemical Company