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Women and Science

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This digital collection features materials related to notable women scientists, including Marie Curie, Irène Joliot-Curie, Bettye Washington Greene, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Stephanie Kwolek, and Rosalyn Yalow, as well as images of women working in a variety of laboratory and industrial settings. The collection also includes a range of materials related to women's health, including breast pumps, contraceptives, and mammary sizers.

Photographs

Skein dyeing and color matching at Althouse Customer Service Laboratory
- 1952
View of dyeing technicians working in the Customer Service and Quality Control Laboratory at the Althouse Chemical Company plant in Reading, Pennsylvania. The technicians are engaged in a skein dyeing process whereby…
- Contributor Feeman, James
- Subject Dye industry, Employees, Dyes and dyeing, Dyes and dyeing--Equipment and supplies, Althouse Chemical Company, Research, Industrial--Laboratories, Women employees
Photographs

Helipot Division: Production
- Undated
The production room at the Helipot Division of Beckman Instruments, Inc., where mostly women employees assemble potentiometers, dials, and other small devices.
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Potentiometer, Beckman Instruments, inc., Women employees
Photographs

Woman using a Beckman Microlab 252MX Computing Infrared Spectrophotometer
- Circa 1980
This computing spectrophotometer was controlled by a microprocessor and included a video graphics display.

The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold…
- Subject Women in science, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Computers, Infrared spectroscopy, Beckman Instruments, inc., Spectrophotometer, Women employees, Employees
Photographs, Stereographs

A reservoir after evaporation – turning up the salt – salt fields, Solinen, Russia
- After 1895
View of a reservoir among the extensive salt fields in Solinen, Russia, located along the Black Sea, following evaporation. Women are seen breaking up the crust of salt formed by evaporation, while masses of salt…
- Publisher Underwood & Underwood
- Subject Employees, Manufacturing industries, Salt industry and trade, Salt mines and mining, Women employees
Photographs

Beckman HC/CO Tester in use measuring automobile exhaust
- 1970s
A man in a lab coat and a woman with a clipboard record the readings of an HC/CO Tester attached to the tailpipe of an automobile. This instrument measures the levels of hydrocarbons (HCs) and carbon monoxide (CO)…
- Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, inc.
- Subject Automobiles--Motors--Exhaust gas, Automobiles--Pollution control devices, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Automobiles, Beckman Instruments, inc., Women in science
Photographs

Checking Odor Values
- 1950s
View of chemists checking the odor values of the fractions of the distilled oil before bulking at the Norda Company plant in Boonton, New Jersey.
- Creator Of Work Norda Essential Oil and Chemical Company
- Subject Norda Essential Oil and Chemical Company, Essences and essential oils industry, Perfumes industry, Women employees, Employees, Research, Industrial--Laboratories

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