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.

Start Over Genre Photographs ✖ Genre Negatives ✖ Place Michigan--Marquette ✖ Subject Wood distillation ✖ Subject Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company ✖

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Photographs, Negatives

Vertical retort and wood loading conveyor
- 1949
Two views of the vertical retort and wood loading conveyor at the Cliffs Dow wood sawmill and distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Seeking a source of raw material for its new plastic, ethylcellulose, the…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Wood distillation, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Chemical industry--By-products, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Sawmills, Machinery, Conveying machinery, Sawmills--Equipment and supplies
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

Sawmill at Cliffs Dow plant in Marquette, Michigan
- 1949
Elevated view of the sawmill at the Cliffs Dow wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan taken from the perspective of the vertical retort, with view of wood storage in background. Seeking a source of raw…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Wood distillation, Industries, Dow Chemical Company, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Sawmills, Machinery
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

Vertical retort and wood loading conveyor
- 1949
General view of the vertical retort and wood loading conveyor at the Cliffs Dow sawmill and wood distillation plant located in Marquette, Michigan. Providing a sense of scale, two unidentified employees are visible in…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Wood distillation, Industries, 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

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