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Phosphoric acid furnace at Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory
- 1930-May-28
General view of a phosphoric acid furnace in use at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory located in Washington, D.C. Phosphorus fumes are seen emerging from the furnace as part of the…
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Control panel for compressors in Urea Plant
- 1926-Apr
General view of the control panel for compressors at the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory's Urea Plant. In the production of fertilizer, liquid carbon dioxide and liquid ammonia are commonly combined under…
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Samples from Ammonia-(Urea-Water) system
- 1927-Jul-26
General view of numbered test tube samples from the Ammonia-(Urea-Water) system at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory located in Washington, D.C. Urea is a water-soluble powder form…
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Apparatus for nitration of organic substances
- 1926-Apr
L.A. Pinck demonstrating an apparatus used for the nitration of organic substances at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory located in Washington, D.C.
The Fixed Nitrogen Research…
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Carbon dioxide regenerator in Urea Plant
- 1926-Apr
General view of the carbon dioxide regenerator at the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory's Urea Plant. In the production of fertilizer, liquid carbon dioxide and liquid ammonia are commonly combined under high-pressure…
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High-frequency apparatus at the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory
- Circa 1928
General view of a high-frequency apparatus used in the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory's Arc Laboratory. In the early 20th century, the arc process, in which electric generators are used to combine nitrogen and…
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Use of silica gel in arc process
- Circa 1928
General view of the apparatus used at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory to introduce silica gel into an arc process. In the early 20th century, the arc process, in which electric…
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Apparatus for water-gas catalysts
- Circa 1928
Apparatus for the production of catalysts used to initiate water-gas shift reactions at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory located in Washington, D.C. The water-gas shift reaction…
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Apparatus for oxidation of ammonia
- 1927-Jul-26
General view of an apparatus used to oxidize ammonia at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory located in Washington, D.C.
The Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory (F.N.R.L.) was…
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Ammonia-carbon dioxide pump and Urea autoclave
- 1927-Jul-26
General view of the ammonia-carbon dioxide pump and Urea autoclave used at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory located in Washington, D.C.
The Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory…
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Alkali waste mounds at the United Alkali Company Limited chemical plant
- Part of The Romance of Modern Chemistry
- 1909
… the background. 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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Portrait of Dr. Arthur A. Noyes (1866-1936)
- 1927-Dec-12
… (1887) in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his PhD from the University of Leipzig in 1890. As a professor of chemistry at MIT, he established and served as director of the Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry before assuming the directorship of the Gates Chemical Laboratory…
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Letter from James S. Kane to Earl K. Hyde, January 1978
- 1978-Jan-25
…1937-) as the director of the National Resource for Computation in Chemistry (NRCC).…
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Agricultural Research Service Drug Laboratory
- 1901 – before 1928
…control, and standardization of manufacturing methods. The Bureau of Chemistry was established in 1901 through Congressional appropriations as a successor to the U.S.D.A. Division of Chemistry and significantly built upon the work of its predecessor, which researched … purity and composition of foods and drugs. In 1927, the Bureau of Chemistry effectively disbanded when its powers were reorganized under a new…
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L. Testa, glassblower, at work at U.S. Department of Agriculture
- 1931
… Division, Fertilizer and Fixed Nitrogen Investigations, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils.…
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Letter from Fritz Haber to Georg Bredig, May 1928
- 1928-May-23
…Haber (1868-1934), a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, informs his…
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Library at the University of Leipzig
- 1901
…wearing a suit, hunched over their books in the library of the Physical Chemistry Institute at the University of Leipzig. The men are identified by…
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Colorimeter for nitrogen dioxide analysis
- Circa 1928
…Nitrogen Research Laboratory located in Washington, D.C. With regards to chemistry, colorimeters are used to measure the absorbance of particular wavelengths…
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Oral history interview with Sally Chapman
- 2009-Jan-05 (First session)
- 2009-Jan-06 (Second session)
…institute. The physics was PSSC—Physical Science Study Committee. The chemistry was CHEM [Chemical Education Materials] Study Chemistry. It was—to … a terrible year in chemistry that maybe…I think that when we get to physical chemistry I’m going … do superbly well in organic chemistry. You know, your C in general chemistry is not the end of the world…
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Oral history interview with David R. Bryant
- 1998-Apr-08
…apparently knew even less, and it’s all relative. I did have one chemistry course in high school, and a nice chemistry teacher. I can’t remember … knack for math. TRAYNHAM: You mean you had a double major of chemistry and math? BRYANT: Yes, chemistry and math. Chemistry I had …, while I was at Duke, I had a superb two semesters of polymer chemistry from a great teacher. That was all the polymer chemistry I knew.…
- Interviewee Bryant, David R., 1936-
- Interviewer Traynham, James G.
- Sponsor Society of Chemical Industry (Great Britain). American Section
- Subject Chemistry, Organic, Hauser, Charlie, Bryant, David R., 1936-, Union Carbide Corporation, Vinyl acetate, Acrylic acid, Oxo process, Chemical industry, Chemists
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The Development of the Periodic Law
- 1896
…periodicity which has since proved such a valuable thought to inorganic chemistry. The first to alrange …These triads played quite an important part in Gmelin’s Hand Book of Chemistry, the most influential text-book of chemistry during the second quarter …COOKE. 4I The second is to be compared with polymerism in or- ganic chemistry. The third is analogous to the homologous series in organic chemistry…
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Oral history interview with John Kuriyan
- 2009-Apr-27
- 2009-Aug-04 – 2009-Aug-05
…would let him choose where to go, so he chose. THACKRAY: Why chemistry in particular? KURIYAN: I never had any desire to study chemistry …on what? KURIYAN: Initially, I thought I would study organic chemistry. Then I did some research on organic chemistry with a professor there …it. I think it’s stupid. MIT is a school that doesn’t consider your chemistry GREs. I don’t know if they looked at it. The GRE in chemistry was…
- Interviewee Krause, James E., 1952-
- Interviewer Domush, Hilary, Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Morrissette, Naomi
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Krause, James E., 1952-, Chemistry, Proteins--Structure, X-ray crystallography, Oxidative stress, University of California, Berkeley, Protein-tyrosine kinase, Rockefeller University, Epidermal growth factor
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Diamond Blue-White fabric dye
- After 1935 – before 1942
Blue and white cardboard box with a small paper packet of powdered fabric dye. The dye is intended for use on white fabric to enhance the fabric's brightness and prevent yellowing.
Fabric dyes are charged,…
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Dyestuffs, Volume 25 Number 11
- 1924-Nov
Eleventh issue from the twenty-fifth volume of Dyestuffs, a journal publication from the National Aniline Division of the Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation issued on a monthly to quarterly basis from 1898 to 1964…
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Dyestuffs, Volume 25 Number 8
- 1924-Aug
Eighth issue from the twenty-fifth volume of Dyestuffs, a journal publication from the National Aniline Division of the Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation issued on a monthly to quarterly basis from 1898 to 1964…