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22 itemsStudy questions for Household and Organic Chemistry course at Pennsylvania State University
- 1942
Study questions for Household and Organic Chemistry (Chemistry 52) course taught by American chemist, home economist, and college administrator Dr. Pauline Beery Mack (1891-1974) at Pennsylvania State University. The…
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157 itemsLaboratory exercises for Household and Organic Chemistry course at Pennsylvania State University
- 1942
Notebook of laboratory exercises for Household and Organic Chemistry (Chemistry 52) course taught by American chemist, home economist, and college administrator Dr. Pauline Beery Mack (1891-1974) at Pennsylvania State…
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46 itemsQuantitative Chemical Analysis notes taken by Frederick Edwin Atwood
- 1900
Notebook used by Frederick Edwin Atwood (1875-1948) during a quantitative chemical analysis course taken at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. A native of Chelsea, Vermont, Atwood received his Bachelor of…
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96 itemsChemistry notes taken by Rose Agnes Brabenec
- 1907
Notebook used by Rose Agnes Brabenec (1889-1963) during a high school-level chemistry class in Chesterland, Ohio. The notebook begins with notes pertaining to carbon (chapter 11, page 176) and includes a variety of…
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120 itemsNotes from chemistry lectures at Oxford Female College, 1862-1864
- 1862 – 1864
Lecture notes taken by Amanda C. Shanklin for a college-level chemistry course at Oxford Female College in Oxford, Ohio. The lectures were given by Orange Nash Stoddard (1812-1892), professor of natural science at…
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140 itemsLaboratory notes taken by Clara Esther Hartley
- 1895 – 1896
Laboratory notebook used by Clara Esther Hartley during a high school-level chemistry class in Troy, Ohio. The notebook details approximately 115 experiments performed by Hartley, ranging from fundamental investigations…
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186 itemsE.F. Carey pharmacopeia
- 1863 – 1875
This notebook contains recipes and formulas developed or copied by E. F. Carey while working as an assistant pharmacist in Rhode Island and as the owner operator of a pharmacy in Massachusetts between 1863 and 1875.…
- Author Carey, E. F.
- Subject Medicine, Pharmacopoeias, Pharmacy, Patent medicines
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41 itemsNotes from R. B. (Robert Burns) Woodward's Seminars
- Circa 1959 – 1966
This folder contains notes written by Robert E. Kohler concerning chemical syntheses from R. B. Woodward's seminar lectures, specifically his Thursday Evening Seminars predating the formulation of the Woodward-Hoffmann…
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3 itemsFormula for silvering film
- 1931-Aug-25
The handwritten document was created in connection with Arnold O. Beckman's consulting work for Lee de Forest.
- Creator Of Work Beckman, Arnold O.
- Subject Silver films (Metal coating), Silvering, Celluloid
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69 itemsCharles F. Chandler notebook Aus Nord Amerika
- 1854 – 1855
Notebook containing 49 pages of laboratory notes taken by Charles F. Chandler in Göttingen as a pupil of Professor Friedrich Wöhler in 1854 and in Berlin as a pupil of Professor Heinrich Rose in 1855. In these pages,…
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669 itemsHerbert H. Dow Letter Copying Book - Midland Chemical Company
- 1891 – 1893
Letter copying book containing accounting reports and business correspondence of Herbert H. Dow as head of the Midland Chemical Company, 1891-1893. The Midland Chemical Company was Dow's second commercial venture, and…
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5 itemsA Discussion of pH Measurement Methods
- 1936-Aug
This report outlines the colorimetric and electrical ways to determine the pH of a solution and the various kinds of electrodes that can be used with electrical instruments. Beckman concludes that a method using glass…
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13 itemsInstructions for the Beckman Oxygen Electrode Evaluation Kit, X-300-100 (draft)
- 1956
Although the author is unknown, these instructions were most likely written by a Beckman Instruments employee. This glass electrode was used in Beckman pH meters.
Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at…
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3 itemsThe Three Missing Decades
- 1954-Sep-26
These handwritten notes on glass electrodes appear to be signed Noel B. Brayman.
Glass electrodes were used in Beckman pH meters and various other instruments.
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11 itemsModel F resistor notes and diagrams
- 1946-Apr-08
Handwritten and -drawn notes detail the resistors used in the Model F pH meter.
Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at the request of a chemist from the California citrus industry, who needed an accurate…
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5 itemsGlass Electrode Theory
- 1955-May-10
The handwritten notes appear to be signed Noel Brayman.
Glass electrodes were used in Beckman pH meters and various other instruments.
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2 itemsTest Specification for Glass Electrodes
- Final draft
- 1955-Feb-25
The foldering of this document suggests it was written by Edwin Arthur. As in a 1957 document, "beauty" was the first criteria to be evaluated.
The glass electrodes were used in Beckman pH meters and various other…
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3 itemspH in Ceramics
- Remarks by Edwin P. Arthur before the Los Angeles Section of the American Ceramic Society March 9, 1955
- 1955-Mar-09
In his address to the American Ceramic Society, Edwin Arthur discussed the importance of pH--and, by extension, the measurement of pH with Beckman instruments--in the work of ceramists.
Arnold Beckman invented his…
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5 itemsNotes re Model DU-X2
- 1954-Mar-28
This series of handwritten and -drawn notes relates to the development of the Beckman DU-X2 spectrophotometer. One of the pages appears to be missing.
The first Beckman Instruments DU Spectrophotometer was developed in…
- Creator Of Work Beckman, Arnold O.
- Subject Ultraviolet spectroscopy, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Spectrophotometer, Beckman Instruments, inc.
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108 itemsUnited States Army Gas School Course Notes
- 1918
Notebook consists of handwritten notes taken by Francis E. Scott at the U.S. Army Gas School at Camp Kendrick, New Jersey, on the use of gas in warfare. The notes include teaching aids and a circular letter from…
- Author Scott, Francis E.
- Subject Science--Study and teaching, World War (1914-1918), Chemical warfare--Safety measures, Military education, Intrenchments, Fries, Amos A. (Amos Alfred), 1873-1963, Gas masks--Maintenance and repair, United States. Army. Chemical Warfare Service, Scott, Francis E., Chemical agents (Munitions), Chemical warfare--Equipment and supplies, Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers, Chemical warfare--Safety measures--Equipment and supplies, Phosgene, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use--Safety measures, United States. Army, Chlorine, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas, Trenches, Chemical warfare, Artillery, Chemical weapons, Chloropicrin
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325 itemsThe Pauling Oxygen Meter: A Collection of Three Early Reports
- 1944-Jun-30
- 1952-Feb
- 1953-May
The included reports are "The Pauling Oxygen Meter" by Reuben E. Wood and David P. Shoemaker, 1944; "Final Report Contract Nonr 388(00): Research Covering Develpment of an Onoxia Warning Device for Use in High-altitude…
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7 itemsNotes on the development of the glucose analyzer
- 1960s
The notes, which appear to be written in the same hand, may have been authored by James C. Sternberg.
The Glucose Analyzer was developed by James Sternberg in 1969 and was one of several very successful medical…
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6 itemsAutobiography of Howard Cary
- Undated
This account of Howard Cary's life covers the period from his birth to his initial contact with National Technology Laboratories and brief discussion of his later involvement with pH meter development. He devotes a fair…
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6 itemsHistory of Beckman Instruments, Inc.
- Personal Recollections of Arnold O. Beckman
- Undated
The account focuses on the early days of Beckman's entrepreneurial endeavors, from Robert Millikan referring I. H. Lyons to Beckman for assistance with National Postal Meter Company inks through the renting of a new…
- Creator Of Work Beckman, Arnold O.
- Subject California Institute of Technology, Racism, Beckman, Arnold O., Hydrogen-ion concentration--Measurement--Instruments, Millikan, Robert, 1868-1953, Antisemitism, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Smith, G. Frederick (George Frederick), 1891-, California Fruit Growers Exchange, Beckman Instruments, inc., E.H. Sargent and Company, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Willard, Hobart H. (Hobart Hurd), 1881-1974
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128 itemsRobert Bruce Merrifield notebook
- 1959-May-26 – 1960-Jan-25
Notebook #321 kept by Robert Bruce Merrifield from May 26, 1959 through January 25, 1960 in which he sets out his general conception of solid phase peptide synthesis. This work earned him a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in…