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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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    Extrusion of saran bubbles at Dow Chemical Company

    • 1993

    Four views showing various stages of the extrusion of saran bubbles from a rolling machine at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. The employee visible in the photographs is unidentified. During…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Extrusion process, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Plastics--Extrusion, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
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    Extrusion of saran bubble at Dow Chemical Company

    • 1987 – 1988

    Two views of an unidentified employee observing the extrusion of a saran bubble from a rolling machine at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. During production, saran film passed through a series of…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Extrusion process, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Plastics--Extrusion, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Packaging of Saran Wrap at Dow facility

    • 1972

    General view of a conveyor belt transporting cases of Saran Wrap at a Dow Chemical Company manufacturing facility in Midland, Michigan. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Plastics, Dow Chemical Company, Belt conveyors, Consumer goods, Corporations, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Saran film production at Dow facility

    • 1972

    General view of sheets of saran film moving through a rolling machine at a Dow Chemical Company manufacturing facility in Midland, Michigan. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Saran Wrap production at Dow facility

    • 1972

    General view of a conveyor belt transporting rolls of Saran Wrap at a Dow Chemical Company manufacturing facility in Midland, Michigan. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Belt conveyors, Corporations, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Packaging of Saran Wrap at Dow facility

    • 1972

    Elevated view of a conveyor belt transporting boxes of Saran Wrap at a Dow Chemical Company manufacturing facility in Midland, Michigan. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Belt conveyors, Corporations, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Extrusion of saran bubble at Dow Chemical Company

    • 1972

    General view of employee Louis Vallaincourt observing the extrusion of a saran bubble from a rolling machine at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. During production, saran film passed through a series…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Extrusion process, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Plastics--Extrusion, Plastics industry and trade, 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
  • 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, Employees, Industries, Ethylcellulose, Charcoal, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry--By-products, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Charcoal industry, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Saran film rolls at Dow facility

    • 1965

    General view of packaged rolls of saran film at a Dow Chemical Company manufacturing facility in Midland, Michigan. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport during World War II,…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Plastics, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Dow Chemical Company Glycol plant

    • 1950s

    General view of the interior of a section of the Dow Chemical Company Glycol plant located in Midland, Michigan.

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Industries, Glycols, Dow Chemical Company, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Styron belt at Dow Chemical Company facility

    • 1950s

    General view of employees examining a Styron belt (also known as a ribbon) as it is extruded from a machine in the Styron manufacturing facilities at the Dow Chemical Company plant located in Midland, Michigan. Per…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Plastics, Employees, Extrusion process, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Plastics--Extrusion, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Dow Chemical Company Styron manufacturing facilities

    • 1950s

    General view of unidentified employees at work in the Styron manufacturing facilities at the Dow Chemical Company plant located in Midland, Michigan. A Styron belt (also known as a ribbon) is visible being extruded from…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Plastics, Employees, Extrusion process, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Plastics--Extrusion, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Chemist analyzing weed killer in Dow Analytical Laboratory

    • 1950s

    General view of chemist Delores Horne analyzing the active constituent of a weed killer in the Dow Chemical Company's Analytical Laboratory located in Midland, Michigan. Per a notation accompanying the photograph, Ms.…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Women in science, Weeds--Control--Research, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Dow Chemical Company, Weeds, Women chemists, Women employees, Glassware, Laboratories
  • Photographs, Negatives

    Glass blowing at Dow Chemical Company facility

    • 1957-Oct-02

    General view of apprentice Carl Goetz blowing out a distillation head of a glass tube manufactured in the Dow Chemical Company's Glass Fabrication department. Founded in 1925, the department was responsible for the…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Glass blowing and working, Laboratories, Dow Chemical Company, Glass manufacture, Blown glass, Glassware
  • Photographs, Negatives

    Examining glassware at Dow Chemical Company facility

    • 1957-Oct-02

    General view of shop foreman Ken Altman (left) and Francis Parkinson, Jr. examining assorted glassware produced in the Dow Chemical Company's Glass Fabrication department. Founded in 1925, the department was responsible…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Laboratories, Dow Chemical Company, Glass manufacture, Glassware, Scientific apparatus and instruments
  • Photographs, Negatives

    Forming coils in Glass Fabrication department

    • 1957-Oct-02

    General view of master glassblower Hugh Morrison blowing through a tube while Wayne Doehring winds glass onto a mandril to form a coil. This photograph was taken in the Dow Chemical Company's Glass Fabrication…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Glass blowing and working, Laboratories, Dow Chemical Company, Glass manufacture, Blown glass, Machinery, Glassware, Scientific apparatus and instruments
  • Photographs

    Magnesium rolling mill at Dow plant in Madison, Illinois

    • Circa 1957

    General view of a section of the magnesium rolling mill at the Dow Chemical Company facilities located in Madison, Illinois. Dedicated in 1954, the magnesium fabrication plant in Madison was the world's first facility…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Photographer Korling, Torkel
    • Subject Magnesium, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Rolling-mill machinery, Machinery, Rolling-mills, Magnesium industry and trade
  • Photographs, Negatives

    Glass Fabrication department furnace

    • 1957-Oct-02

    General view of Wayne Doehring placing a glass polymerizer into the annealing furnace in the Dow Chemical Company's Glass Fabrication department. Founded in 1925, the department was responsible for the fabrication and…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Laboratories, Dow Chemical Company, Glass manufacture, Furnaces, Glassware
  • Photographs, Negatives

    Automatic calibrating machine in Glass Fabrication department

    • 1957-Oct-02

    General view of glassblower Joe Skalnican using an automatic calibrating machine to apply calibration marks to a piece of glass manufactured in the Dow Chemical Company's Glass Fabrication department. Founded in 1925,…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Calibration--Equipment and supplies, Laboratories, Dow Chemical Company, Glass manufacture, Machinery, Glassware, Scientific apparatus and instruments
  • Photographs

    Extrusion press at Dow Magnesium Fabrication plant

    • Circa 1957

    General view of the 13-ton extrusion press at the Dow Chemical Company Magnesium Fabrication plant facilities located in Madison, Illinois. Produced in Duisburg, Germany, the press measured 250 feet long and could…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Photographer Korling, Torkel
    • Subject Employees, Magnesium, Industries, Extrusion process, Dow Chemical Company, Metals--Extrusion, Machinery, Magnesium industry and trade
  • Photographs

    Magnesium rolling mill at Dow plant in Madison, Illinois

    • Circa 1957

    Elevated view of the magnesium rolling mill at the Dow Chemical Company facilities located in Madison, Illinois. The plant's 13-ton extrusion press, which was manufactured in Duisburg, Germany and could produce…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Photographer Korling, Torkel
    • Subject Employees, Magnesium, Industries, Extrusion process, Dow Chemical Company, Rolling-mill machinery, Metals--Extrusion, Magnesium industry and trade, Rolling-mills, Machinery
  • Photographs

    Dow Magnesium Fabrication plant in Madison, Illinois

    • Circa 1957

    General view of a section of the Dow Chemical Company Magnesium Fabrication plant facilities located in Madison, Illinois. A 13-ton extrusion press produced in Duisburg, Germany is visible on the left-hand side of the…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Photographer Korling, Torkel
    • Subject Employees, Magnesium, Industries, Extrusion process, Dow Chemical Company, Metals--Extrusion, Machinery, Magnesium industry and trade
  • Photographs, Negatives

    Absolute pressure gauge in Glass Fabrication department

    • 1957-Oct-02

    General view of Wesley Smith filling an absolute pressure gauge manufactured at the Dow Chemical Company's Glass Fabrication department with mercury. Founded in 1925, the department was responsible for the fabrication…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Laboratories, Dow Chemical Company, Glass manufacture, Glassware, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Pressure gages
  • Photographs

    Magnesium rolling mill at Dow plant in Madison, Illinois

    • Circa 1957

    General view of a section of the magnesium rolling mill at the Dow Chemical Company facilities located in Madison, Illinois. Dedicated in 1954, the magnesium fabrication plant in Madison was the world's first facility…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Photographer Korling, Torkel
    • Subject Employees, Magnesium, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Rolling-mill machinery, Machinery, Rolling-mills, Magnesium industry and trade
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