A: Blue plastic funnel with B: cap used to hold filter paper. Funnel is designed to fit on two 2-liter soda bottles (with cap on) or on the top of a jerrycan (without cap).

In 2016 Dr. Theresa Dankovish's company,…

James Feeney grew up in Philadelphia and earned degrees in chemical engineering and biological sciences. He became a remedial project manager for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Ambler asbestos piles…

Susan Curry moved to Ambler, Pennsylvania in 1998. Wanting to live sustainably, she joined Alliance for a Sustainable Future, took a master's degree in environmental studies and psychology, and joined the newly founded…

Robert Adams grew up in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, always interested in the outdoors. As a student at the Ambler campus of Temple University with a major in urban studies and environmental science, he became familiar with…

Penelope Fenner-Crisp grew up in the suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one of two children. Her father changed jobs frequently; her mother was a housewife until Fenner-Crisp was nearly through high school. The family all…

This oral history is one in a series that looks at the history of the Toxic Substances Control Act from the perspectives of the individuals involved in its creation, implementation, and execution.

Victor J. Kimm…

Plastic tube with purple flip cap. Hollow fibers inside tube filters contaminants from water. Purple string attached to one end of tube.

LifeStraw is a personal and mobile water purification tool developed as a…

Kathryn C. Hach-Darrow begins the interview with anecdotes of Clifford C. Hach as a young, inquisitive child growing up on a farm and the effects of the Great Depression on the Hach family. Despite financial…

Robert E. Finnigan begins the interview with a description of his family and childhood years in Snyder, New York. Finnigan developed an interest in military service and science while reading The Dave Darrin Series about…

Isabella and Jerome Karle met while both were pursuing doctorates in physical chemistry under Professor Lawrence Brockway at the University of Michigan. After earning their degrees (and marrying), they worked on the…

The press release announces the specifications for Type CEL-D and Type CEL-JD Conductivity Cells.

General view of an unidentified female employee pouring a water sample into the tray of a Perkin-Elmer Autosampler at an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) laboratory facility located in Edison, New Jersey. Per…

Beckman's Microtox Acute Water Toxicity Monitor debuted in 1979.

General view of Wilson Walker, Chief Chemist at the Ohio Department of Health's Sanitary Chemistry Laboratory, injecting a sample of drinking water into the cylinder of a Perkin-Elmer Heated Graphite Atomizer (HGA). Per…

General view of a Perkin-Elmer Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer in use at a Calgon Water Management laboratory facility. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the spectrophotometer is equipped with a…

This recorder was used with Beckman's Microtox Acute Water Toxicity Monitor.

General view of laboratory technician Richard Thomson preparing water samples for testing at the New York City Bureau of Water Supply's Ben Nesin Laboratory. Per notations accompanying the photograph, a Perkin-Elmer…

General view of employee Jack Guillaumin (right) and an unidentified chemist reviewing the results of an analysis conducted by a Perkin-Elmer Model 306 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer in a laboratory at the Detroit…

General view of an unidentified chemist operating a Perkin-Elmer gas chromatograph in an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region II laboratory located in Edison, New Jersey. Per notations accompanying the…

General view of an unidentified employee operating a Perkin-Elmer Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer with a heated graphite atomizer (HGA) attachment in use at a Calgon Water Management laboratory facility. Per…

General view of a Perkin-Elmer Grating Infrared Spectrophotometer in use at a Calgon Water Management laboratory facility. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the spectrophotometer is being used to characterize…

General view of a Perkin-Elmer Model 337 Grating Infrared Spectrophotometer in use at a Calgon Water Management laboratory facility. The female technician visible in the photograph is unidentified.

Beckman's Microtox Acute Water Toxicity Monitor debuted in 1979.

The press release discusses a carbon dioxide sensor and water purity sensor planned to fly on the Space Shuttle Orbiter in the early 1980s.

In 1968, Beckman's Advanced Technology Operations group introduced the MINOS Dissolved Oxygen Meter (DOM), capable of measuring dissolved oxygen in seawater at depths of 3,000 meters.

The photograph of the instrument…