General view of an unidentified employee conducting low-temperature research in the Dow Chemical Company's Plastics Technical Services laboratory. In the chemical industry, a variety of machines and apparatus are…

Interior view of a section of the South Side Power House at a Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan.

Interior view of a section of the South Side Power House at a Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan, showing a control panel and two unidentified employees.

General view of two technicians using a RCA Model EMU electron microscope in the Dow Chemical Company's Metallurgical Laboratory. Electron microscopes use a beam of accelerated electrons as a source of illumination and…

General view of an unidentified employee at work in the Dow Chemical Company plant facilities located in Midland, Michigan. Several industrial-sized reaction vessels are visible in the photograph.

General view of chemist Roger Monroe working with a still in the Dow Chemical Company's Bush Aromatics Research Department.

General view of employees at work in the sand foundry at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Bay City, Michigan. Sand casting (or sand molded casting) is a metal casting process wherein sand is used as the mold material…

General view of the assembly of rolls of Saran Wrap at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport during World War II, saran…

General view of an unidentified employee handling a saran bubble as it is extruded from a machine during the production of saran film at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. During production, the film…

General view of the manufacturing of saran film at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. During production, saran film was trimmed and wound into so-called inventory rolls, such as those visible in the…

General view of the sea water intake apparatus at the Dow Chemical Company plant located in Freeport, Texas. Dow commonly processed sea water to obtain magnesium, the world's lightest structural metal.

General view of assorted shipping tanks in the rail yard at a Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan.

General view of a technician operating an electrostatic accelerator in the Dow Chemical Company's Spectroscopy Laboratory.

Close-up view of the underside of the styrene finishing stills at a Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. An organic compound derived from benzene, styrene is a precursor to polystyrene and was popularized in…

Close-up view of the underside of the styrene finishing stills at a Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. An organic compound derived from benzene, styrene is a precursor to polystyrene and was popularized in…

General view of the tank cars used to ship raw materials from the Dow Chemical Company's plant located in Freeport, Texas.

General view of two unidentified employees surveying a tank used for waste disposal at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan.

General view of the construction of a waste disposal facility at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan.

General view of two unidentified employees surveying a tank used for waste disposal at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan.

General view of a section of the waste disposal facilities at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan.

General view of an unidentified employee using an Atlas Weather-O-Meter in the Dow Chemical Company's Coatings Technical Service department, which developed a range of materials used to improve the performance of paints…

General view of an unidentified employee examining a bobbin from a drawtwister used for the production of Zefran, an acrylic fiber, at the Dow Chemical Company's Textile Research Laboratory located in Pittsburg,…

Aerial view of the Analytical Laboratory at the Dow Chemical Company facilities in Midland, Michigan. Three employees are visible on the ground floor of the laboratory, surrounded by assorted analytical instruments and…

Interior view of the Analytical Laboratory at the Dow Chemical Company facilities in Midland, Michigan. Assorted analytical instruments and computational equipment is visible throughout the laboratory, including a…

Group photograph depicting "Night with Ike" dinner held at Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961, is positioned at…