Instruments & Innovation

Close-up view of chemist Francis Ptak holding a rack of Nessler tubes at a Gascoyne Laboratory facility located in Baltimore, Maryland. A Perkin-Elmer automated, multi-element spectrophotometer is visible in the…

Research chemist Stanley Supkis using a distillation apparatus in the Aeromaterials laboratory at the Naval Air Engineering Center (Philadelphia, Pa.).

General view of employees at work in the Analytical Laboratory at the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street laboratory facility located in Chicago, Illinois. The two employees visible in the foreground of the…

General view of apprentice Carl Goetz blowing out a distillation head of a glass tube manufactured in the Dow Chemical Company's Glass Fabrication department. Founded in 1925, the department was responsible for the…

General view of glassblower Bill Schwartz applying internal pressure to fuse and close the end of a small vacuum-jacketed column in the Dow Chemical Company's Glass Fabrication department. Founded in 1925, the…

General view of Bill Pahl alternately heating and compressing a glass tube, part of a semi-microfractionation column manufactured in the Dow Chemical Company's Glass Fabrication department. Founded in 1925, the…

General view of Wayne Doehring placing a glass polymerizer into the annealing furnace in the Dow Chemical Company's Glass Fabrication department. Founded in 1925, the department was responsible for the fabrication and…

General view of crew leader Stan Mikols (left) and Dale Snyder examining a blueprint used to manufacture a piece of glass in the Dow Chemical Company's Glass Fabrication department. Founded in 1925, the department was…

General view of Dick Kowalczyk welding a side arm onto a glass polymerizer manufactured in the Dow Chemical Company's Glass Fabrication department. Founded in 1925, the department was responsible for the fabrication and…

General view of shop foreman Ken Altman (left) and Francis Parkinson, Jr. examining assorted glassware produced in the Dow Chemical Company's Glass Fabrication department. Founded in 1925, the department was responsible…

General view of master glassblower Rex Badder measuring the coils on a nine-foot continuous reactor manufactured in the Dow Chemical Company's Glass Fabrication department. Founded in 1925, the department was…

General view of Wesley Smith filling an absolute pressure gauge manufactured at the Dow Chemical Company's Glass Fabrication department with mercury. Founded in 1925, the department was responsible for the fabrication…

General view of glassblower Joe Skalnican using an automatic calibrating machine to apply calibration marks to a piece of glass manufactured in the Dow Chemical Company's Glass Fabrication department. Founded in 1925,…

General view of Merlyn Smith molding a flange on a six-inch pipe manufactured in the Dow Chemical Company's Glass Fabrication department. Founded in 1925, the department was responsible for the fabrication and repair of…

General view of master glassblower Hugh Morrison blowing through a tube while Wayne Doehring winds glass onto a mandril to form a coil. This photograph was taken in the Dow Chemical Company's Glass Fabrication…

General view of Ray Kent checking a polymer operation at the Dow Chemical Company's Plastics Production Laboratory. Established in 1953 as an outgrowth of Dow's Physical Research Laboratory, the Plastics Production…

General view of employees (left to right) Ruth Johnson Dugo, Lillian Kazmierzki, Valentine I. Miciulis, and Serge Levicki at work in the Analytical Laboratory at the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street laboratory…

General view of chemist Roger Monroe working with a still in the Dow Chemical Company's Bush Aromatics Research Department.

General view of an unidentified employee working with assorted test tubes in the Dow Chemical Company's Biological Chemical Laboratory. The laboratory commonly conducted research and testing related to the development…

General view of an unidentified employee conducting an experiment with assorted fruit specimens in the Dow Chemical Company's Biological Chemical Laboratory. The laboratory commonly conducted research and testing…

View of two unidentified employees shaping assorted laboratory glassware in the Dow Chemical Company's Glass Fabrication department. The man on the left (closest to the camera) is seen using a table-top blow torch to…

General view of an unidentified employee using an apparatus to conduct an analysis at the Dow Chemical Company's Agricultural Research Laboratory facilities in Seal Beach, California. The laboratory was commonly used to…

General view of the Research Laboratory at the Althouse Chemical Company plant in Reading, Pennsylvania showing various equipment and apparatus used for the production and testing of dyestuffs.

Based in Reading,…

General view of the Research Laboratory at the Althouse Chemical Company plant in Reading, Pennsylvania showing various equipment and apparatus used for the production and testing of dyestuffs.

Based in Reading,…

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…