Instruments & Innovation

Four views showing various stages of the extrusion of saran bubbles from a rolling machine at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. The employee visible in the photographs is unidentified. During…

General view of the extrusion of saran bubbles from rolling machines at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. During production, molten saran polymer was extruded from circular dies, then cooled and…

General view of employee Louis Vallaincourt observing the extrusion of a saran bubble from a rolling machine at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. During production, saran film passed through a series…

General view of employee Anton H.R. Noreen conducting an analysis of coal samples at the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street laboratory and manufacturing facility located in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1887, the…

General view of employee Anton H.R. Noreen preparing samples for testing at the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street laboratory and manufacturing facility located in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1887, the Dearborn…

General view of a laboratory work bench at the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street laboratory and manufacturing facility, with view of assorted glassware and scientific apparatus. The employee visible in the…

General view of employee Al Slisg conducting a water analysis test at the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street laboratory and manufacturing facility located in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1887, the Dearborn…

General view of several employees conducting water analysis tests at the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street laboratory and manufacturing facility located in Chicago, Illinois. The three employees visible in the…

General view of Dearborn Chemical Company employee C.B. Smith utilizing a concentration hydrometer during a water sample field test. Assorted glassware and a Dearborn portable testing cabinet are also visible on the…

General view of two unidentified men utilizing a Dearborn Chemical Company portable testing cabinet to conduct a water sample field test. Founded in 1887, the Dearborn Chemical Company was a corporate ancestor of…

General view of Dearborn Chemical Company engineer F.B. Horstmann utilizing a portable testing cabinet to conduct a water sample field test. A stamp on the verso of the photograph for "The Fensholt Company," a public…

General view of Dearborn Chemical Company employee E.P. Fager preparing a water sample for testing. A stamp on the verso of the photograph for "The Fensholt Company," a public relations firm based in Chicago, suggests…

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 employees at work in the Analytical Laboratory at the Dearborn Chemical Company's 35th Street laboratory facility located in Chicago, Illinois. The employees visible in the photograph are identified as…

Two-page article from the "News Edition" of the magazine of the American Chemical Society profiling Dr. Eugene Cornelius Sullivan (1872-1962).

Eugene C. Sullivan was born on January 23, 1872 in Elgin, Illinois and…

Frank H. Field was raised in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, by an aunt, an uncle, and a grandmother. He entered Duke University, placing a year ahead in chemistry, but had very little money. To meet his expenses he worked…

Glass tube with a collecting reservoir that opens into a funnel (or breast piece). Round red rubber bulb attached to one end of the glass. Stamp in black ink on red bulb reads "Ingram's/'Omega'/London."

Glass tube with a collecting reservoir that opens into a funnel (or breast piece). Round black rubber pump attached to one end of the glass.

A: Boat-shaped molded glass bottle. Embossed on one side of bottle are measurements in tablespoons; embossed on the other side of the bottle are measurements in ounces. Company name is embossed across top of bottle. …

Long stem, round bottom flask with custom flange. Needle-size hole on opposite side of flange allows for release of pressure.

Klaus Biemann's oral history begins with a discussion of his youth near Vienna, Austria. As pharmacy was the family profession, Biemann chose to study it at the University of Innsbruck. He soon developed an interest in…

John H. Beynon was born in Ystalyfera, Wales, the older of two sons whose parents ended their education at secondary school. Beynon grew up in a coal mining town and attended a local university, the University of Wales…

Close-up view of a Plexiglas auger (a type of drilling device or drill bit) manufactured at an unidentified Rohm and Haas Company facility.

The Rohm and Haas Company was founded in 1907 in Esslingen, Germany through…

General view of the production of a Plexiglas auger (a type of drilling device or drill bit) at an unidentified Rohm and Haas Company facility. The employee visible in the photograph is also unidentified.

The Rohm and…

General view of several employees using a crane to move a heat treatment tank in preparation for the expansion of rosin-making facilities at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Brunswick, Georgia. One of two Hercules…