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  Business correspondence, Postage stamps

  Postcard from G.Thierry to Georg Bredig and Colleagues, April 1933

  • 1933-Apr-19

  Thank you note from G Thierry, a German engineer, to Georg Bredig (1868-1944) and his colleagues.

  • Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-
  • Author Thierry, G
  • Subject Engineers, Chemists, Bredig, Georg, 1868-
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  Photographs

  Corrosion engineers trade show display (circa 1950)

  • 1950s

  General view of the Hercules Powder Company display at a corrosion engineers trade show held in Kansas City, Missouri.

  Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder Company (later…

  • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
  • Photographer Anderson Photo Co.
  • Subject Advertising, Advertising, Industrial, Chemical industry, Corporations, Hercules Incorporated, Trade shows, Engineering, Engineers
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  Publications

  Frontispiece: Fifty one male scientists of Great Britain living in the years 1807-8

  • Part of Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in the Years 1807-8

  • 1821

  Foldout frontispiece illustration entitled "Key to the Engraving of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain 1807-8" depicts all fifty one scientists whose biographies are included in this work. They are…

  • Author Walker, William, 1821-
  • Publisher W. Walker & Son
  • Subject Scientists--Biography, Scientists, Chemists, Astronomers, Engineers, Naturalists, Portraits, Portraits, British, Portraits, Group
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  4 items
  Publications

  Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in the Years 1807-8

  • 1821

  Contains fifty one biographies of scientists living in Great Britain during the years 1807-8. Scientists include astronomers, chemists, engineers, naturalists, and other men of science.

  • Author Walker, William, 1821-
  • Publisher W. Walker & Son
  • Subject Scientists--Biography, Scientists, Chemists, Astronomers, Engineers, Naturalists
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  8 items
  Oral histories

  Oral history interview with Paul A. Wilks

  • 2002-Oct-29

  Paul A. Wilks, Jr. begins the interview by discussing his early years and family life in Springfield, Massachusetts. After graduating from Springfield Technical High School, Wilks went to Harvard University, where he…

  • Interviewee Wilks, Paul A., Jr., 1923-2008
  • Interviewer Brock, David C., Daemmrich, Arthur
  • Subject Engineers, Wilks, Paul A., Jr., 1923-2008, Spectrum analysis, Perkin-Elmer Corporation, General Analysis Corporation, Wilks Scientific Corporation, Engineers--Biography, Beckman Instruments, Inc., Connecticut Instrument Company, Foxboro (Firm)
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  Oral histories

  Oral history interview with Herman Fialkov

  • 2009-Sep-24 (First session)
  • 2009-Nov-23 (Second session)
  • 2010-Feb-27 (Third session)
  • 2010-Jun-28 (Fourth session)

  Herman Fialkov was born in 1922 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Herman attended City College of New York, studying engineering. He left college to take a job with Emerson Radio Corporation attending night school at…

  • Interviewee Fialkov, Herman, 1922-2012
  • Interviewer Brock, David C., Ulrych, Richard
  • Subject Engineers, General Instrument Corporation, Businesspeople--Biography, Businesspeople, Electronic industries, New business enterprises, Entrepreneurship, Fialkov, Herman, 1922-2012, Engineers--Biography, Rock, Arthur, 1926-, Semiconductors
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  Photographs

  Engineering Department at Dow Chemical Company

  • 1952

  General view of employees at work in the Engineering Department at the Dow Chemical Company's headquarters in Midland, Michigan. Assorted blueprints and papers are visible on the drafting tables arranged throughout the…

  • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
  • Subject Engineering, Engineers, Employees, Dow Chemical Company
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  Photographs

  Engineers calendering experimental stocks of rubber

  • Circa 1949

  View of two engineers, Stanley Bilker (background) and Ralph Harper (foreground), operating the calender sheeting machine at the the Naval Air Experimental Station's Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory. The…

  • Creator Of Work Naval Air Experimental Station, United States. Navy
  • Subject Aerospace Research Laboratories (U.S.), Employees, Rubber, Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.), Engineers, Machinery
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  Photographs

  Engineer operating shot peening equipment

  • Circa 1958

  General view of an engineer operating shot peening equipment at the Naval Air Material Center's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory. Shot peening is a cold work process used to finish metal parts to prevent fatigue and…

  • Creator Of Work Naval Air Material Center, United States. Navy
  • Subject Aerospace Research Laboratories (U.S.), Metals--Cold working, Shot peening, Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.), Engineers, Employees, Machinery
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  Photographs

  Calender sheeting operation

  • Circa 1949

  View of two engineers, Stanley Bilker (background) and Ralph Harper (foreground), operating the calender sheeting machine at the the Naval Air Experimental Station's Rubber Compounding and Processing Laboratory. The…

  • Creator Of Work Naval Air Experimental Station, United States. Navy
  • Subject Aerospace Research Laboratories (U.S.), Employees, Rubber, Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.), Engineers, Machinery