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 Place Michigan--Midland ✖ Date 1947 ✖

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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

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
Photographs, Negatives

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

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