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This digital collection features selected scientific instruments, apparatus, and analytical tools from the Institute's museum as well as photographs, rare-book engravings, and illustrations depicting various types of equipment and machinery found in laboratories, manufacturing plants, and mechanical treatises. Inventions from book wheels to fireballs can be found here, alongside more modern innovations such as Gammacells and Geiger counters.

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    Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan

    • After 1934 – before 1970

    General view of a section of the interior of the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic, ethylcellulose, the Dow Chemical Company joined…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Wood distillation, Employees, Industries, Ethylcellulose, Charcoal, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry--By-products, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Charcoal industry, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan

    • After 1934 – before 1970

    General view of a section of the interior of the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic, ethylcellulose, the Dow Chemical Company joined…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Wood distillation, Industries, Ethylcellulose, Charcoal, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry--By-products, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Charcoal industry, Machinery

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