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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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    Employee operating shell machine at Hercules Kenvil plant

    • Circa 1918

    General view of an unidentified employee operating a machine used to produce shell cartridges used in the manufacture of dynamite at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey. Formed in 1912 as part of an…

    • Creator Of Work Hercules Incorporated
    • Subject Employees, Chemical industry, Propellants, Hercules Incorporated, Corporations, Explosives, Machinery
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    Bureau of Chemistry Protein Investigation Laboratory

    • 1913 – before 1928

    General view of employees at work in the Bureau of Chemistry's Protein Investigation Laboratory, with view of assorted laboratory glassware and apparatus. Part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Protein…

    • Creator Of Work United States. Food and Drug Administration
    • Subject Employees, United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Food industry and trade, Glassware, Laboratories, Scientific apparatus and instruments
  • Photographs

    Bureau of Chemistry Oil, Fat, and Wax Laboratory

    • 1901 – before 1928

    General view of two employees working in the Bureau of Chemistry's Oil, Fat, and Wax Laboratory, with view of assorted laboratory glassware and apparatus. Part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Oil, Fat, and…

    • Creator Of Work United States. Food and Drug Administration
    • Subject Employees, United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Oils and fats, Oils and fats--Research, Food industry and trade, Oils and fats--Analysis, Glassware, Laboratories, Scientific apparatus and instruments
  • Photographs

    Bureau of Chemistry Nitrogen Laboratory

    • 1901 – before 1928

    General view of an employee operating an apparatus used to study ammonia at the Bureau of Chemistry's Nitrogen Laboratory. Part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Nitrogen Laboratory conducted investigations…

    • Creator Of Work United States. Food and Drug Administration
    • Subject Nitrogen, Employees, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Glassware, Laboratories, United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils
  • Photographs

    Bureau of Chemistry Nitrogen Laboratory

    • 1901 – before 1928

    General view of the Bureau of Chemistry's Nitrogen Laboratory showing assorted laboratory glassware and apparatus. Part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Nitrogen Laboratory conducted investigations into…

    • Creator Of Work United States. Food and Drug Administration
    • Subject Employees, United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Food industry and trade, Glassware, Laboratories, Scientific apparatus and instruments
  • Photographs

    Bureau of Chemistry Nitrogen Laboratory

    • 1901 – before 1928

    General view of an employee conducting an analysis of an unidentified substance in the Bureau of Chemistry's Nitrogen Laboratory. Part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Nitrogen Laboratory conducted…

    • Creator Of Work United States. Food and Drug Administration
    • Subject Employees, United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Food industry and trade, Glassware, Laboratories, Scientific apparatus and instruments
  • Photographs

    Bureau of Chemistry Drug Laboratory

    • 1901 – before 1928

    General view of two employees at work in a Bureau of Chemistry Drug Laboratory, with view of assorted laboratory glassware and apparatus. Part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, such laboratories commonly…

    • Creator Of Work United States. Food and Drug Administration
    • Subject Employees, United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Drugs, Food industry and trade, Glassware, Laboratories, Scientific apparatus and instruments
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    Agricultural Research Service Drug Laboratory

    • 1901 – before 1928

    General view of two employees at work in an Agricultural Research Service Drug Laboratory, with view of assorted laboratory glassware and apparatus. Part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, such laboratories commonly…

    • Creator Of Work United States. Food and Drug Administration
    • Subject Employees, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Drugs, Food industry and trade, Glassware, Laboratories, United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, United States. Agricultural Research Service
  • Photographs

    Naval Stores Investigation Laboratory

    • 1901 – before 1928

    General view of three employees at work in the Bureau of Chemistry's Naval Stores Investigation Laboratory, a division of the Leather and Paper Laboratory. Assorted laboratory glassware and apparatus, as well as notices…

    • Creator Of Work United States. Food and Drug Administration
    • Subject Naval stores industry, Employees, United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Naval stores, Glassware, Laboratories, Scientific apparatus and instruments
  • Photographs

    Bureau of Chemistry Carbohydrate Laboratory

    • 1913 – before 1928

    General view of the Bureau of Chemistry's Carbohydrate Laboratory showing assorted laboratory glassware and apparatus. Part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Carbohydrate Laboratory analyzed the physical and…

    • Creator Of Work United States. Food and Drug Administration
    • Subject Sugar, Carbohydrates--Analysis, Employees, Laboratories, Carbohydrates, United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Glassware
  • Photographs

    Bureau of Chemistry Carbohydrate Laboratory

    • 1913 – before 1928

    General view of the Bureau of Chemistry's Carbohydrate Laboratory showing assorted laboratory glassware and apparatus. Part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Carbohydrate Laboratory analyzed the physical and…

    • Creator Of Work United States. Food and Drug Administration
    • Subject Sugar, Carbohydrates--Analysis, Employees, Laboratories, Food industry and trade, Carbohydrates, United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Glassware
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    Bureau of Chemistry Water and Beverage Laboratory

    • After 1901 – 1928

    General view of an employee in the Bureau of Chemistry's Water and Beverage Laboratory conducting an analysis on an unidentified substance. Assorted sample jars and scientific apparatus are visible in the photograph.…

    • Creator Of Work United States. Food and Drug Administration
    • Subject Water--Testing, Employees, Laboratories, Food industry and trade--Safety regulations, Beverage industry, Food industry and trade, Glassware, United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Scientific apparatus and instruments

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