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12 itemsExhibitions
Science and Survival
Select digitized items from the outdoor exhibition Science and Survival, on view from October 2022-April 2023.
Materials in this exhibition are from the Archival Collections, the Papers of Georg and Max Bredig, and the …
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11 items
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420 items
Modern Books and Journals
Consisting of digitized materials from the Othmer Library, the modern collection includes works published after 1850. Strengths of the collection include general science, physics, chemistry, chemical technology,…
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26m 23s
Making the Connection
- Careers for Chemical Engineers
- 1997
This video is aimed at college students interested in chemical engineering as a degree or a career. Recent graduates and early-career chemical engineers from a variety of employers and industries share their experiences…
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27m 36s
Fields of Promise
- Sowing the Seeds of Biotechnology
- 1995
This video, produced with funding from Monsanto Company, presents the science behind genetically modified crops, beginning with Gregor Mendel and leading up to the mid-1990s cutting edge research in drought and…
- Producer Image Base
- Subject Transgenic plants, Genetically modified foods, Agriculture
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5m 44s
It Didn't Just Happen
- Undated
This is a promotional film for the National Plastics Hall of Fame, at the time housed in the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster, Massachusetts. Frank S. Marra narrates this short presentation about some…
- Creator Of Work National Plastics Center & Museum, The Plastics Academy
- Subject Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Science museums
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4 items
Letter from Wilhelm Ostwald to Georg Bredig, September 1923
- 1923-Sep-18
The German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932) thanks Georg Bredig (1868-1944) for his friendship and suggests that a work on the crude salts of methyl acetate be included in a volume that Bredig is working on.
- Author Ostwald, Wilhelm, 1853-1932
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Subject Ostwald, Wilhelm, 1853-1932, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
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Letter from the German Consulate to Max Bredig, May 4, 1938
- 1938-May-04
The German Consulate in Cleveland, Ohio informs Max Bredig (1902-1977) that his German passport cannot be extended until a confirmation has arrived from Germany. The validity of Max Bredig's German passport was likely…
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13 items
Oral history interview with Lee W. Riley
- 1997-Dec-29 – 1997-Dec-31
Lee W. Riley was born Hiroshi Satoyoshi: he spent his first ten years with his mother in Yokohama, Japan, then lived for a short time in a Japanese orphanage before being adopted by the Riley family, at which time he…
- Interviewee Riley, Lee W., 1949-
- Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Riley, Lee W., 1949-, Public health, Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Escherichia coli--Research, Tuberculosis--Research, Communicable diseases--Transmission, Tuberculosis--Pathogenesis
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Letter Excerpt from Paul Homburger, January 26, 1941
- 1941-Jan-26
Paul Homburger (1882-1965) describes the two groups of people that are permitted to leave the Gurs concentration camp in France.
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2 items
Letter from Ilse Wolfsberg to Franz Friedrich Nord, February 13, 1941
- 1941-Feb-13
Ilse Wolfsberg updates Franz Friedrich Nord (1889-1973) on the immigration case of her fiancé, Fritz Hochwald (1897-1968), who is interned at the Miranda de Ebro Camp in Spain. She additionally asks Nord if he would be…
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2 items
Postcard from Ernst Cohen to Georg Bredig, January 1900
- 1900-Jan-17
Ernst Cohen (1869-1944), a Dutch chemist, writes to Georg Bredig (1868-1944) and recommends a French publication to read for Bredig's work on platinum.
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Author Cohen, Ernst, 1869-1944
- Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Cohen, Ernst, 1869-1944, Platinum
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2 items
Letter from Julius Thomsen to Georg Bredig, December 1883
- 1917-May-02
Julius Thomsen (1826-1909), a Danish chemist famous for determining the amount of heat absorbed in many chemical reactions, provides information on the enthalpy of neutralization for different acids, salts, and metals.
- Creator Of Work Thomsen, Julius, 1826-1909
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Thomsen, Julius, 1826-1909, Neutralization (Chemistry), Enthalpy
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3 items
Letter from Eduard Buchner to Georg Bredig, November 1899
- 1899-Nov-20
Eduard Buchner (1860-1917), a German chemist and zymologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1907, discusses his work on enzymes in a letter to Georg Bredig (1868-1944). Buchner additionally expresses his…
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Author Buchner, Eduard, 1860-1917
- Subject Buchner, Eduard, 1860-1917, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Enzymes, Nobel Prize winners
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Letter from Otto Bütschli to Georg Bredig, May 1918
- 1918-May-28
Otto Bütschli (1848-1920), a German zoologist and professor at the University of Heidelberg, thanks Georg Bredig (1868-1944) for attending a celebration to unveil his commemorative bust.
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4 items
Letter from Dr. Moritz Straus to Max Bredig, December 1940
- 1940-Dec-22
- 1940-Dec-26
Moritz Straus provides information to Max Bredig (1902-1977) on how to send financial assistance to Max's sister and brother-in-law, Marianne and Viktor Homburger, who are interned in the Gurs concentration camp in…
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2 items
Letter from Alfred Coehn to Georg Bredig, March 1928
- 1928-Mar-18
Alfred Coehn (1863-1938), a German physicist, thanks Georg Bredig (1868-1944) for his moral support and provides an update on his current research dealing with protons in various metals.
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Letter from Walther Hempel to Georg Bredig
- 1901-Feb-24
Walther Hempel (1851-1916), a German chemist, thanks Georg Bredig (1868-1944) for sending his habilitation thesis "Anorganische Fermente" (Inorganic Ferments). In many Germanophone countries, a habilitation is a…
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Postcard from Fritz Haber to Georg Bredig, January 1900
- 1900-Jan-18
In a postcard to Georg Bredig (1868-1944), Fritz Haber (1868-1934), a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, discusses the platinum potentials of…
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Oral history interview with Constantine E. Anagnostopoulos
- 2012-Aug-06
Constantine E. Anagnostopoulos was born in Turkey in 1922 to parents of Greek descent. Due to Turkish expulsion of the Greeks when he was three months old, the family left for the Greek mainland. Because his father was…
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7 items
Oral history interview with Nancy B. Jackson
- 2010-Sep-22
Nancy B. Jackson was born in Wisconsin, and her family moved a few times during her childhood. Jackson spent much of her teenage years in St. Louis, Missouri. Both of her parents were United Church of Christ ministers.…
- Interviewee Jackson, Nancy B.
- Interviewer Domush, Hilary
- Subject Jackson, Nancy B., Women in science, Sandia National Laboratories, Chemical engineering, American Chemical Society, Sex discrimination, Working mothers, United States. Department of State, Chemicals--Safety measures, American Indian Science and Engineering Society
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206 items
Colour and Methods of Colour Reproductions
- 1923
Work divided into three parts, the first providing an overview of color theory and nomenclature, the second describing advanced concepts of color measurement (e.g., spectrometry), and the third part concerning color…
- Author Martin, L. C. (Louis Claude)
- Contributor Gamble, William, 1864-1933
- Publisher Blackie
- Subject Colors, Color printing, Color photography, Spectrum analysis, Light, Photometry, Diffraction, Color vision, Color blindness, Vision disorders
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80 items
A Manual of Dyeing and Dyeing Receipts, Comprising a System of Elementary Chemistry as Applied to Dyeing
- With Receipts for the General Reader for Dyeing and Colour on Cotton, Silk, and Wool, which Colooured Pattern of Cloth of Each Fabric
- 1875
The third edition of a work, updated from the first to include an updated description of contemporary dyeing machinery, advances in science, and updated nomenclature and chemical formula. According to the author, the…
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25 items
Color and its Applications
- 1915
Volume concerned with the science of color and applications of color science. Subjects discussed include the electromagnetic spectrum and wave theory; terminology and nomenclature of color; perception of color by the…
- Author Luckiesh, Matthew, 1883-1967
- Publisher D. Van Nostrand Company
- Subject Colors, Music and color, Spectrum analysis, Light, Color vision, Electromagnetic waves
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54 items
Dress, Blouse, and Costume Cloths, Design and Fabric Manufacture
- 1921
This thoroughly illustrated work describes the vast world of textile technology, the spinning and weaving industry, and fabric manufacture. The work seeks to "interpret (1) the commercial and industrial aspects of the…
- Author Beaumont, Roberts, 1862-1924
- Contributor Hill, Walter George
- Publisher Pitman, Isaac, 1813-1897
- Subject Textile fabrics, Textile design, Spinning, Weaving, Textile industry, Textile research