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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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  • Grayson, Michael A.5
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  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Seymour Meyerson

    • 1991-Mar-07

    Seymour Meyerson was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois and attended the University of Chicago from which he received his undergraduate degree. By 1943 Meyerson began active service with the US military, spending the…

    • Interviewee Meyerson, Seymour, 1916-
    • Interviewer Grayson, Michael A.
    • Subject Meyerson, Seymour, 1916-, Chemistry, Chromatographic analysis, Mass spectrometry, Chemistry, Analytic, Chemists--Biography, Consolidated Engineering Corporation, Chemical apparatus, Chemistry, Organic
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Klaus Biemann

    • 2006-Aug-29

    Klaus Biemann's oral history begins with a discussion of his youth near Vienna, Austria. As pharmacy was the family profession, Biemann chose to study it at the University of Innsbruck. He soon developed an interest in…

    • Interviewee Biemann, K. (Klaus)
    • Interviewer Grayson, Michael A.
    • Subject Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Peptides, Chromatographic analysis, Mass spectrometry, Chemistry, Organic, Biemann, K. (Klaus), Chemists--Biography, Chemical apparatus, Chemistry, Analytic
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Keith R. Jennings

    • 2008-Apr-24 (First session)
    • 2008-Apr-25 (Second session)

    Keith R. Jennings begins his oral history by discussing his youth and education in the United Kingdom, including his chemistry studies at University of Oxford, where he worked with Jack Wilfrid Linnett, and his…

    • Interviewee Jennings, Keith R., 1932-
    • Interviewer Grayson, Michael A.
    • Subject Chromatographic analysis, Jennings, Keith R., 1932-, Mass spectrometry, Chemists--Biography, Chemical apparatus, Chemists
  • Oral histories

    Oral history interview with John H. Beynon

    • 2008-Apr-22

    John H. Beynon was born in Ystalyfera, Wales, the older of two sons whose parents ended their education at secondary school. Beynon grew up in a coal mining town and attended a local university, the University of Wales…

    • Interviewee Beynon, J. H. (John Herbert)
    • Interviewer Grayson, Michael A.
    • Subject Imperial Chemical Industries, ltd., Swansea University, Chromatographic analysis, Mass spectrometry, Chemists--Biography, Beynon, J. H. (John Herbert), Purdue University, Chemical apparatus
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    Oral history interview with Frank H. Field

    • 2009-Dec-09 (First session)
    • 2009-Dec-10 (Second session)

    Frank H. Field was raised in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, by an aunt, an uncle, and a grandmother. He entered Duke University, placing a year ahead in chemistry, but had very little money. To meet his expenses he worked…

    • Interviewee Field, F. H. (Frank Henry), 1922-
    • Interviewer Grayson, Michael A.
    • Subject Field, F. H. (Frank Henry), 1922-, Ionization, Rockefeller University, Chromatographic analysis, Chemists, Mass spectrometry, Chemists--Biography, Consolidated Engineering Corporation, Esso Research and Engineering Company, Humble Oil and Refining Company (Incorporated in Tex.), Franklin, J. L. (Joseph Louis), 1906-, Chemical apparatus

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