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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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  • Photographs, Negatives

    Wood storage at Cliffs Dow sawmill in Marquette, Michigan

    • 1949

    General view of a section of the wood storage at the Cliffs Dow sawmill and wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. The employee visible in the photograph is unidentified.

    Seeking a source of raw…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Wood distillation, Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry--By-products, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Sawmills, Machinery, Sawmill workers, Sawmills--Equipment and supplies
  • Photographs, Negatives

    Wood storage at Cliffs Dow sawmill in Marquette, Michigan

    • 1949

    General view of an unidentified employee standing on top of a pile of logs at the Cliffs Dow sawmill and wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. An Insley Excavator is visible on the right-hand side of…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Wood distillation, Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry--By-products, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Sawmills, Machinery, Sawmill workers, Sawmills--Equipment and supplies
  • Photographs, Negatives

    Wood storage at Cliffs Dow sawmill in Marquette, Michigan

    • 1949

    General view of an unidentified employee standing on top of a pile of logs at the Cliffs Dow sawmill and wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. An Insley Excavator is visible on the left-hand side of…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Wood distillation, Employees, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry--By-products, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Sawmills, Machinery, Sawmill workers, Sawmills--Equipment and supplies
  • Photographs, Negatives

    Hot pond and sawmill conveyor at Cliffs Dow plant

    • 1949

    General view of three unidentified employees poling and transferring logs from a hot pond to the washer and sawmill conveyor at the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Invented around…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Wood distillation, Employees, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry--By-products, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Sawmills, Machinery, Conveying machinery, Sawmill workers, Sawmills--Equipment and supplies
  • Photographs, Negatives

    Sawmill at Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan

    • 1949

    General view of an unidentified employee loading logs into a machine in the sawmill at the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic,…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Wood distillation, Employees, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry--By-products, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Sawmills, Machinery, Sawmill workers, Sawmills--Equipment and supplies
  • Photographs, Negatives

    Band saw in use at Cliffs Dow plant

    • 1949

    General view of an unidentified employee feeding cants (logs with one or more squared sides) into a band saw in the sawmill at the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Wood distillation, Employees, Band saws, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry--By-products, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Sawmills, Machinery, Sawmill workers, Sawmills--Equipment and supplies
  • Photographs, Negatives

    Band saw at Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan

    • 1949-Jun

    General view of an unidentified employee filing a band saw in the sawmill at the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic, ethylcellulose,…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Wood distillation, Employees, Band saws, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry--By-products, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Sawmills, Machinery, Sawmill workers, Sawmills--Equipment and supplies
  • Photographs, Negatives

    Circular saws at Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan

    • 1949

    General view of an unidentified employee filing circular saws in the sawmill at the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic,…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Wood distillation, Employees, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry--By-products, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Sawmills, Machinery, Circular saws, Sawmill workers, Sawmills--Equipment and supplies
  • Photographs, Negatives

    Saran bubble at Dow Chemical Company

    • 1951

    General view of an unidentified employee inspecting 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…

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

    Saran film production at Dow Chemical Company

    • 1951

    Elevated view of employees at work in the Dow Chemical Company's saran film manufacturing facilities in Midland, Michigan. During production, saran film was trimmed and wound into so-called inventory rolls, such as…

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

    Saran bubbles at Dow Chemical Company

    • 1951

    General view of saran bubbles being extruded from rolling machines during the production of saran film at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. During production, the film passed through a series of…

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

    Saran film manufacturing at Dow Chemical Company

    • 1951

    General view of an unidentified employee at work in the Dow Chemical Company's saran film manufacturing facilities in Midland, Michigan. Saran plastic is seen passing through some type of bath or wash by virtue of a…

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

    Saran film manufacturing at Dow Chemical Company

    • 1951

    General view of two unidentified employees at work in the Dow Chemical Company's saran film manufacturing facilities in Midland, Michigan. The employees are seen stretching a length of film between two rollers. During…

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

    Dow Chemical Company saran film manufacturing facilities

    • 1951

    General view of employees at work in the Dow Chemical Company's saran film manufacturing facilities in Midland, Michigan. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport during World War…

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

    Chemical analysis at Dow Chemical Company laboratory

    • 1944

    General view of laboratory technicians analyzing assorted materials in a Dow Chemical Company laboratory. Per notations accompanying the photograph, Bill Herrick (left) is analyzing calcium chloride, which was used for…

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

    Acid analysis in Dow Chemical Company laboratory

    • 1944

    General view of technician Leo Ruhnau using an apparatus to determine the percentage of hydrochloric acid in Dowell acids at a Dow Chemical Company laboratory.

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

    Testing experimental alloys in Dow Chemical Company laboratory

    • 1944

    General view of technicians Marguerite Tenhunen (left) and Dorothy Ferris (right) using assorted apparatus in a Dow Chemical Company laboratory to determine the quantity of zinc present in experimental alloys.

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Women in science, Employees, Industries, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Dow Chemical Company, Women employees, Glassware, Laboratories

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