Search within the Science History Institute 16mm Film Collection
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8M 35S
Automated Blood Alcohol Analysis With Gas Chromatography
- 1960s
This narrated guide to performing blood alcohol analysis using gas chromatography was created by Dr. G. Machata at the University of Vienna Institute of Forensic Medicine. It walks viewers through using Perkin-Elmer…
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10m 04s
Turbo-Cat
- Circa 1958
This silent film shows a demonstration of the "Turbo-Cat" expeditionary catapult. Developed in the 1950s by Don Doolitle and manufactured by the All American Engineering Company of Wilmington, Delaware, the system used…
- Creator Of Work All American Engineering Company
- Subject Airplanes, Jet engines
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43m 34s
Putting Scientific Information to Work
- 1967
This promotional film is one of several made to advertise the new citation indexing service offered by the Institute for Scientific Information. The ISI was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1960 by Eugene…
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16m 30s
Baseline: The Chemist
- 1977
This film from the American Chemical Society showcases the skills of the chemist with artful shots of chemical reactions, laboratory procedures, and instruments, and free verse, first-person narration connecting the…
- Creator Of Work American Chemical Society
- Producer Screen Presentations, Inc.
- Subject Chemistry, Chemists, Women chemists, American Chemical Society, Chemical laboratories
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8m 45s
Chemical Education and Research in Europe, Part II
- 1928 – 1929
This silent film is the second of two captured by American chemist Alexander Silverman during a tour of university chemistry departments and laboratories across Europe in 1928-1929. This film reel is mostly of…
- Subject Chemical laboratories, Women in science, University of Aberdeen, University of Edinburgh, Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Parsons, Charles Lathrop, 1867-1954, Lind, Samuel C. (Samuel Colville), 1879-1965, Clarke, Hans Thacher, 1887-1972, Adams, Roger, 1889-1971, Hale, William J. (William Jay), 1876-1955, Bartow, Edward, 1870-1958, McPherson, William, 1864-1951, Gomberg, Moses, 1866-1947, Harkins, William D. (William Draper), 1873-1951, Bogert, Marston Taylor, 1868-1954, Norris, James F. (James Flack), 1871-1940, Whitmore, Frank C. (Frank Clifford), 1887-1947, Wendt, G. (Gerald), 1891-1973
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13m 55s
Chemical Education and Research in Europe, Part I
- 1928-May-28 – 1928-Aug-10
This silent film is the first of two captured by American chemist Alexander Silverman during a tour of university chemistry departments and laboratories across Europe in 1928-1929. His edited footage contains title…
- Creator Of Work Silverman, Alexander, 1881-1962
- Subject Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie (Otto-Hahn-Institut), Chemical laboratories, Universität Bonn, Università di Roma, Università di Firenze, Università di Bologna, Università di Padova, Czech Republic--Jáchymov, University of Oxford, National Physical Laboratory (Great Britain), Royal Institute of Chemistry
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48m 37s
Linus Pauling Lectures on Valence and Molecular Structures: Part 3
- 1957
In this third lecture in a series on valence and molecular structure, Pauling addresses ligancy, coordination numbers and complexes, metallic valence, oxidation numbers, hydrogen bonds, and weak forces.
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50m 07s
Linus Pauling Lectures on Valence and Molecular Structures: Part 2
- 1957
In part two of this lecture series on valence and molecular structures, Pauling focuses on ionic and covalent bonds, bond and molecular resonance, and how different bonds effect an element's properties. To demonstrate,…
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50m 41s
Linus Pauling Lectures on Valence and Molecular Structures: Part 1
- 1957
This is the first in a series of three recorded lectures about valence and atomic structure given by Linus Pauling when he was a professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. In this lecture, Pauling…
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12m 17s
The Robot Chemist
- Circa 1967
This video is a sales presentation for "The Robot Chemist," an automated laboratory system manufactured by Warner-Chilcott Laboratories Instruments Division. This system mixes, measures, and tests chemical agents using…
- Creator Of Work Warner/Chilcott (Firm). Instruments Division
- Producer Aegis Productions
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Spectrophotometer, Robots
