Instruments & Innovation

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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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Publications

American Contemporaries article profiling Dr. Eugene Cornelius Sullivan (1872-1962)
- 1940
Two-page article from the "News Edition" of the magazine of the American Chemical Society profiling Dr. Eugene Cornelius Sullivan (1872-1962).

Eugene C. Sullivan was born on January 23, 1872 in Elgin, Illinois and…
- Publisher American Chemical Society
- Subject Sullivan, Eugene Cornelius, 1872-1962, Chemists, Pyrex, Corning Glass Works, Portraits, Glassware, Glass manufacture
Photographs

Detail view of draw pin string-up arrangement at nylon pilot plant
- Circa 1938
Two detail views of the BJ-4 Drawtwister used during the early stages of nylon production and research at the DuPont pilot plant in Wilmington, Delaware showing the relocation of the draw pin string-up. The photographs…
- Subject Nylon, Polymers, Nylon--Testing, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Experimental Station, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Machinery
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Manuscripts, Charts, diagrams, etc, Documents

United States Army Gas School Course Notes
- 1918
Notebook consists of handwritten notes taken by Francis E. Scott at the U.S. Army Gas School at Camp Kendrick, New Jersey, on the use of gas in warfare. The notes include teaching aids and a circular letter from…
- Author Scott, Francis E.
- Subject Science--Study and teaching, World War (1914-1918), Chemical warfare--Safety measures, Military education, Intrenchments, Fries, Amos A. (Amos Alfred), 1873-1963, Gas masks--Maintenance and repair, United States. Army. Chemical Warfare Service, Scott, Francis E., Chemical agents (Munitions), Chemical warfare--Equipment and supplies, Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers, Chemical warfare--Safety measures--Equipment and supplies, Phosgene, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use--Safety measures, United States. Army, Chlorine, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas, Trenches, Chemical warfare, Artillery, Chemical weapons, Chloropicrin

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American Contemporaries article profiling Dr. Eugene Cornelius Sullivan (1872-1962)

Detail view of draw pin string-up arrangement at nylon pilot plant

United States Army Gas School Course Notes