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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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    Machine tabulating room at Dow Chemical Company

    • 1947-Dec-16

    General view of unidentified employees at work in the machine tabulating room at the Dow Chemical Company facilities located in Midland, Michigan. Per an article in the December 16, 1947 edition of The Brine Well, the…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Dow Chemical Company, Tabulating machines, Corporations, Machinery, International Business Machines Corporation
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    Alphabetic tabulator in use at Dow Tabulating Department

    • 1947-Dec-16

    Close-up view of IBM Corporation customer engineer Neil Grover servicing the electrical relays on an alphabetic tabulator in the Tabulating Department at the Dow Chemical Company facilities located in Midland, Michigan.…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Dow Chemical Company, Tabulating machines, Corporations, Machinery, International Business Machines Corporation
  • Photographs, Negatives

    Machine Room in Dow Tabulating Department

    • 1947-Dec-16

    General view of the Machine Room in the Tabulating Department at the Dow Chemical Company facilities located in Midland, Michigan. Several employees and machines, including tabulator, sorter, and interpreter units, are…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Employees, Dow Chemical Company, Tabulating machines, Corporations, Machinery, International Business Machines Corporation
  • Photographs, Negatives

    Key punch operators at Dow Tabulating Department

    • 1947-Dec-16

    General view of key punch operators transcribing written data into tabulating cards in the Tabulating Department at the Dow Chemical Company facilities located in Midland, Michigan. The operators are identified as…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject International Business Machines Corporation, Dow Chemical Company, Tabulating machines, Corporations, Machinery, Women employees
  • 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
  • Photographs

    Dow Chemical Company Styron manufacturing facilities

    • 1942

    General view of an unidentified employee at work in the Styron manufacturing facilities at the Dow Chemical Company plant located in Midland, Michigan. Styron is the trade name for Styrenic plastics historically…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Plastics, Employees, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery

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