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Mr. Madorsky with gas-fired smelting furnace
- 1930-Mar-21
General view of the gas-fired smelting furnace used to volatilize (i.e. cause to evaporate or disperse in vapor) potash at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory located in Washington,…
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Stirring machine designed at Arlington Experimental Farm
- Circa 1928
View of a stirring machine designed at the Arlington Experimental Farm in Arlington, Virginia. Established by an act of Congress in April 1900, Arlington Farm served as the main field laboratory for the Bureau of Soils,…
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Shaking machine designed at Arlington Experimental Farm
- Circa 1928
View of a shaking machine designed at the Arlington Experimental Farm in Arlington, Virginia. Established by an act of Congress in April 1900, Arlington Farm served as the main field laboratory for the Bureau of Soils,…
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Oral history interview with Robert Armstrong
- 1986-May-01
…strictly digging in the trenches. BOHNING: What about organic chemistry? ARMSTRONG: Undergraduate organic chemistry at MIT started …Then during my second year I took quantitative analysis, inorganic chemistry and physical chemistry. I took organic chemistry in the third year … BOHNING: Who were the instructors in both physical and organic chemistry? ARMSTRONG: Miles Sherrill taught physical chemistry and authored…
- Interviewee Armstrong, Robert T. (Robert Thexton), 1909-1992
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Celanese Corporation of America, Armstrong, Robert T. (Robert Thexton), 1909-1992, United States Rubber Company, Rubber chemistry, Chemists, Chemistry, Organic, Chemists--Biography, Polymerization, North American Rayon Corporation
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Petroleum fire at Baku, Azerbaijan
- Part of The Romance of Modern Chemistry
- 1909
… fire and smoke. This plate is found within The Romance of Modern Chemistry, which is a layman's introduction to topics in chemistry. Includes a history of chemistry along with alchemy and the philosopher's stone; elements including …as discoveries in chemistry.…
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Once Upon a Christmas Cheery, in the Lab of Shakhashiri
- 1983-Dec-06
…annual Christmas lectures given by Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, a Lebanese chemistry educator who spent most of his career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The 1980 lecture focuses more on kitchen chemistry, like determining the pH levels of common household items, water …from Chemistry professor Charlie Amling), and the properties of rubber. With appearances…
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Electron Structures of Organic Molecules
- 1952
…. ot Organic Molecules by LLOYD N. FERGUSON Associate Professor of Chemistry Howard University PRENTICE-HALL, INC. New York 1952 …er i - , ik of F E ll f fe PRENTICE-HALL CHEMISTRY SERIES Wendell M. Latimer, Editor Copyright, 1952, by Prentice-Hall …treatment to serve as an intro- duction to this phase of physical organic chemistry. Detailed theoretical discussions on many of the topics included …
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Edgar Fahs Smith and students at the University of Pennsylvania
- 1910s
…course of his career, Smith (center, front row) served as professor of chemistry, vice provost, and provost at the University of Pennsylvania. Deeply …Smith also amassed a collection of over 1,000 books on alchemy and chemistry, as well as numerous portraits, prints, engravings, autographed letters …make up the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection in the History of Chemistry housed at the University of Pennsylvania.…
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Letter from Svante Arrhenius to Georg Bredig, April 1901
- 1901-Apr-01
…Widder, the old man has been angry for a long time because inorganic chemistry is viewed by many as a subdivision of physical chemistry. I can understand …to work on the serum topic, which seems closely related to physical chemistry. Perhaps I'll discover something of significance or perhaps nothing … his friend Georg Bredig (1868-1944) about tension in the physical chemistry community. …
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Letter from Campbell Morfit to James Curtis Booth, September 20, 1854
- 1854-Sep-20
…co-editor with James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) of the Encyclopedia of Chemistry (1850), writes with another request for Booth to lecture at the Maryland…
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Once Upon a Christmas Cheery, in the Lab of Shakhashiri...
- 20th Anniversary
- 1989
…annual Christmas lectures given by Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, a Lebanese chemistry educator who spent most of his career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison …polymers, and appearances by Bucky, the UW mascot, Santa Claus, and UW chemistry professor Fred Juergens. This video was taken from a DVD, which …
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Letter from Georg Bredig to Arnold Eucken, May 29, 1927
- 1927-May-29
…1068. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY: TELEPHONE 4093. INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY AND ELECTROCHEMISTRY Professor Dr. A. Eucken in Breslau 16, Borgisstrasse …Max-Albert Bredig enjoyed the customary, thorough, and diverse training in chemistry that he received at our university. He passed our diploma exam in chemistry here about 2 ½ years ago “with distinction.” … Bredig (1902-1977), who recently finished a doctorate in physical chemistry. …
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Note from Max Planck to Georg Bredig
- 1918-May-08
…significant contributions to the world of science in the fields of physical chemistry, theoretical physics, and quantum theory. …
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Holiday celebration at the University of Leipzig, 1898
- 1898
…Photograph depicting a holiday celebration of the physical chemistry department at the University of Leipzig, 1898. The group of students…
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Portrait of Milton Whitney (1860-1927)
- 1910s
…States and its territories. As Chief, Whitney oversaw geography and chemistry-based surveys designed to understand, manage, conserve and sustain…
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Now...a better double-beam infrared spectrophotometer...the Beckman IR-4
- 1956
…official debut of the IR-4 at the Pittsburgh Confer- ence on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, February 27 through March 2. But if you …Fullerton 1, California Charles Bowes Advertising—BL-IR4-1 Analytical Chemistry—February 1956 …which would be on display at the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (PittCon) in 1956. The Beckman Instruments…
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Lime glass tube
- 1930-Jan-08
… Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory located in Washington, D.C. In chemistry, the term "thermionic" is commonly used to describe a substance or…
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Dyestuffs, Volume 22 Number 9
- 1921-Sep
… show the advance that has been made in this branch of industrial: chemistry in the production of dyestuffs for the use of the various color using …proved to be an important landmark in the industrial development of chemistry. Not only did this discovery bring about a complete revolution in …dyeing into a more intimate and direct connection with the science of chemistry, which was then Srowing with great rapidity. “| The discovery of …
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Letter from Max Bredig to Georg Bredig, May 9, 1938
- 1938-May-09
…should have the journals here. The Central Journal, Reports, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Physical Chemistry, and Journal…
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Notes on Water Analysis
- 1950s
…This book of nearly 300 pages is a comprehensive treat~ “ment of the chemistry of the behavior of water, its analysis and the methods of its purification …sulfanilic adid. It is one of the most delicate reactions in quantitative chemistry, Six milligrams of potassium nitrite dissolved in 1000 liters of …
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Advertisements for publications from Verlag von Theodor Steinkopff
- Circa 1927 – 1939
Advertisements for Verlag Theodor Steinkopff, a scientific and medical publishing company.
Titles mentioned are Der Disperse Bau Der Festen Systeme by D. Bararew, Chemische Gasreaktionen by H. -J. Schumacher, …
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Advertisements for publications from Johann Ambrosius Barth publishing house
- Circa 1914
Catalogs and advertisements from Johann Ambrosius Barth Verlag collected by Georg Bredig (1868-1944). Johann Ambrosius Barth was a German publishing house that was established from 1780 to 1999.
Titles listed in the…
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Klett Bio Colorimeter
- 1929
Klett Bio Colorimeter, a device used in colorimetry to measure the absorbance of particular wavelengths of light by a specific solution. Colorimeters are commonly used to determine the concentration of a known solute in…
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Letter from Max Bredig July 5, 1949
- 1949-Jul-05
Max Albert Bredig (1902-1977) writes to his friend and former collogue Kasimir Fajans (1887-1975). Bredig tells Fajans that he will be unable to attend the 50th anniversary of the Karlsruhe Chemical Society. He referred…
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Letter from Georg Bredig to Max Bredig, March 6, 1936
- 1936-Mar-06
Georg Bredig (1868-1944) provides professional and personal advice to his son, Max Bredig (1902-1977), as Max contemplates applying for a new position abroad while still employed in Berlin with Bavarian Nitrogen…