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

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