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25 items
Color and its Applications
- 1915
Volume concerned with the science of color and applications of color science. Subjects discussed include the electromagnetic spectrum and wave theory; terminology and nomenclature of color; perception of color by the…
- Author Luckiesh, Matthew, 1883-1967
- Publisher D. Van Nostrand Company
- Subject Colors, Music and color, Spectrum analysis, Light, Color vision, Electromagnetic waves
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36 items
Explosives for quarry blasting : practical information relating to the selection of explosives and methods of application to assure the most satisfactory results
- 1915
Catalog containing various quarry blasting explosives and equipment manufactured and sold by the E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company. Provides a guide for selecting the proper explosive for quarrying work, detailing the…
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135 items
The Rare Earth Industry: Including the Manufacture of Incandescent Mantles, Pyrophoric Alloys, and Electrical Glow Lamps
- 1915
Volume detailing various industrial applications of rare earths and closely-related elements, including thorium, zirconium, tantalum, and tungsten. Particular attention is given to the illuminating effect of the oxides…
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5 items
Water Purification Plants and their Operation
- 1915
Primarily intended for a non-technical operator of small plants, and particularly of one where chemicals are used, Water Purification Plants and Their Operation provides a concise overview of the operation of…
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14 items
The Cost : Hypochlorite vs. Liquid Chlorine
- 1916
Technical publication pamphlet providing a cost analysis of liquid chlorine and hypochlorite products. Discusses the increase in chlorine chemical costs, and the price of water purification apparatus. Underscores the…
- Creator Of Work Wallace & Tiernan Company
- Publisher Wallace & Tiernan Company
- Subject Liquid chlorine, Hypochlorites, Water--Purification, Water, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Water--Purification--Chlorination, Water purification equipment industry, Water--Purification--Equipment and supplies, Chlorine, Chlorination, Advertising
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48 items
The Story of Rubber, What it Is and What it Does
- Circa 1916
A book about rubber sourcing, cultivation, processing, and the industry during the late colonial period. Published by a rubber goods company presumably for marketing. The Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company was founded…
- Publisher The Boston woven hose & rubber company
- Subject Rubber industry and trade
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15 items
101 uses for an Eveready
- 1917
An advertising pamphlet for Eveready flashlights, includes an explanation of how an electric flashlight will aid the user along with how it operates with the use of an Eveready Tungsten Battery. Features illustrations…
- Author National Carbon Company, Inc.
- Publisher American Ever Ready Works
- Subject Electric lamps, Flashlights, Electric batteries, Tungsten lamps, Eveready Battery Company, Advertising
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57 items
Chemistry : a Text-Book for High Schools
- Macmillan's Canadian School Series
- 1917
High school chemistry textbook written to encompass five components identified in the work's preface as key to chemistry education: to go beyond imparting information, but also to train in critical scientific…
- Author Cornish, George Anthony, 1901-1989
- Contributor Smith, Arthur
- Publisher Macmillan Company of Canada
- Subject Chemistry, Chemistry--Study and teaching, Chemistry--Study and teaching (Secondary), Education, Secondary, Science--Study and teaching, Cornish, George Anthony, 1901-1989, Textbooks, Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829, McCarthy, J. P. (Joseph Priestly), 1933-1995, Ramsay, William, 1852-1916, Dalton, John, 1766-1844, Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867, Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794, Cavendish, Henry, 1731-1810
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146 items
Industrial Nitrogen Compounds and Explosives
- A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture, Properties, and Industrial Uses of Nitric Acid, Nitrates, Nitrites, Ammonia, Ammonium Salts, Cyanides, Cyanamide, Etc. Etc.
- 1917
Second edition of a treatise concerning the methods of manufacture and utilization of the chief industrial nitrogenous substances, profitable methods of their production, synthesis processes for making ammonia, and the…
- Author Martin, Geoffrey, 1881-1966
- Contributor Barbour, W. Warren (William Warren), 1888-1943
- Publisher D. Appleton and Company
- Subject Nitrogen compounds, Explosives, Nitrogen, Ammonia--Synthesis, Ammonia
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16 items
Practical Electricity
- 1917
First edition volume written by Terrell Croft (1880-1967), an American engineer and author of many technical books on electrical and mechanical subjects. The fully illustrated publication was written "to present the…
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20 items
Water Purification by Liquid Chlorine for Small Communities
- 1917
Technical publication pamphlet providing information regarding the Wallace & Tiernan Co., Inc. manual control chlorinator apparatus. Discusses the sterilization of water by chlorination and the advantages of using…
- Creator Of Work Wallace & Tiernan Company
- Publisher Wallace & Tiernan Company
- Subject Water, Water--Purification, Water-supply, Chlorine, Advertising, Water--Purification--Chlorination, Sewage--Purification--Chlorination, Chlorination, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Water purification equipment industry, Water--Purification--Equipment and supplies
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13 items
An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
First edition volume, published in August 1918 by Great Britain's Medical Research Committee. Founded in 1913, the Medical Research Committee and Advisory Council existed primarily for the distribution of medical…
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39 items
Hand Book of Pharmacy and Therapeutics
- Circa 1919
Created by Eli Lilly & Company, this handbook is meant for pharmacists. It is a list of products and contains practical information such as concentration and dosing. In the appendix there are botanical synonyms,…
- Author Eli Lilly and Company
- Subject Drugs--Catalogs, Therapeutics, Eli Lilly and Company
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17 items
Intermediate Text Book of Chemistry
- 1919
Preface describes how this chemistry textbook contains an intermediate level of instruction, being more advanced than elementary chemistry but not as comprehensive as college chemistry. The modified periodic table of…
- Author Smith, Alexander, 1865-1922
- Publisher The Century Co.
- Subject Mendeleyev, Dmitry Ivanovich, 1834-1907, Periodic table, Periodic table of the elements, Textbooks, Chemical elements, Scientific illustration, Science--Study and teaching, Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilʹevich, 1711-1765, Mayow, John, 1641-1679
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176 items
The Edgewood Arsenal
- The Chemical Warfare
- 1919-Mar
The Chemical Warfare was published monthly by the enlisted men of Edgewood Arsenal in Edgewood, Maryland "to bring the news—to stimulate [them] in [their] work—to make for happiness—to cheer and to educate." This issue…
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92 items
Collected Studies on the Pathology of War Gas Poisoning
- 1920
Comprehensive and fully illustrated monograph detailing a study conducted by the United States Chemical Warfare Service and the Brady Laboratory of Pathology, later the Yale Chemical Warfare Service Laboratory for…
- Author Winternitz, M. C. (Milton C.), Lambert, Robert A., Jackson, Leila, Smith, George H.
- Publisher Yale University Press
- Contributor Brady Laboratory of Pathology and Bacteriology
- Subject Chemical warfare, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas, Chemical agents (Munitions), United States. Army. Chemical Warfare Service, Yale University. School of Medicine
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20 items
Design and Construction of Audion Amplifying Transformers, Radio and Audio Types
- Construction details and directions for making these two types of amplifying transformers
- 1920
Informational pamphlet discussing audion transformers suitable for use in the construction of amplifiers. The transformer described is said to amplify audio signals up to four hundred times. Describes the construction,…
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104 items
Dow Chemicals
- 1920s
Volume providing an overview of products manufactured by the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan including industrial chemicals, pharmaceutical products, metal alloys, dyes, and insecticides. Each product is…
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67 items
Gilbert Chemical Magic; A Presentation of Original and Famous Tricks in Conjuring Accomplished by the Use of Chemicals
- Circa 1920
This volume, intended for elementary and middle school-aged children, includes a series of chemistry and science experiments presented as magic tricks. Each experiment outlines instructions for the completion of the…
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105 items
History of the Manufacture of Explosives for the World War, 1917-1918
- 1920
Digitized in entirety, this illustrated work contains photographs and histories of companies that produced munitions for use in World War One. Includes the E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Pennsylvania Trojan…
- Author Williams, W. Bradford (William Bradford)
- Publisher University of Chicago. Press
- Subject Explosives, Military, United States. Army. Ordnance Department, Industries, Weapons industry, Defense industries, Military supplies, Military weapons, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Hercules Powder Company, Atlas Powder Company, Bethlehem Loading Company, World War (1914-1918)
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20 items
An Exhibit Prepared Under the Auspices of the National Research Council with the Cooperation of the Chemical War Service of the United States Army, Now Permanently Installed at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.
- 1921
Exhibition program for "The Chemical Exhibit" installed at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. circa 1921. The central feature of the exhibit is a topographical model showing coal tar and other chemical…
- Author Howe, Harrison Estell, 1881-1942
- Contributor United States. Army. Chemical Warfare Service
- Creator Of Work National Research Council (U.S.)
- Publisher Chemical Foundation (U.S.)
- Subject Chemistry, Technical, Coal-tar products, Chemical warfare
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460 items
Chemical Warfare
- 1921
Written by officers of the United States Army Chemical Warfare Service and National Research Council, Chemical Warfare serves to provide a historical sketch of the development and personnel of the Chemical Warfare…
- Author Fries, Amos A. (Amos Alfred), 1873-1963, West, Clarence J. (Clarence Jay), 1886-1953
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous -- War use., Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous, Chemical warfare, Chemical agents (Munitions), World War (1914-1918), Gas masks, Chlorine, Phosgene, Carbon monoxide, Smoke--Toxicology
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64 items
Die Farbenfibel
- The Color Guide
- 1921
Digitized in entirety, this German color guide features painted color swatches throughout the text. Sections include achromatic and chromatic colors, bright and dark shades, murky colors, as well as color harmony.
- Author Ostwald, Wilhelm, 1853-1932
- Publisher Unesma
- Subject Color, Colors--Analysis, Color--Analysis, Ostwald, Wilhelm, 1853-1932
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54 items
Dress, Blouse, and Costume Cloths, Design and Fabric Manufacture
- 1921
This thoroughly illustrated work describes the vast world of textile technology, the spinning and weaving industry, and fabric manufacture. The work seeks to "interpret (1) the commercial and industrial aspects of the…
- Author Beaumont, Roberts, 1862-1924
- Contributor Hill, Walter George
- Publisher Pitman, Isaac, 1813-1897
- Subject Textile fabrics, Textile design, Spinning, Weaving, Textile industry, Textile research
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20 items
Dyestuffs, Volume 22 Number 9
- 1921-Sep
Ninth issue from the twenty-second 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…