TY - MANSCPT DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: In Copyright - Rights-holder(s) Unlocatable or Unidentifiable TI - Portable Beckman pH Meter in use at Althouse Research Laboratory ID - jq085k01r AU - Tenschert, John A. DA - 1951/// YR - 1951 AV - Photographs from the Records of the Althouse, Bates, and Crompton Chemical Companies, Box 1 VL - Photographs from the Records of the Althouse, Bates, and Crompton Chemical Companies, Box 1 AN - Photographs from the Records of the Althouse, Bates, and Crompton Chemical Companies, Box 1 UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/jq085k01r AB - View of George Garcelon using a portable Beckman pH Meter in the Research Laboratory at the Althouse Chemical Company plant in Reading, Pennsylvania. Based in Reading, Pennsylvania, the Althouse Chemical Company was founded in 1915 by C. Scott Althouse (1880-1970) as a small, family-owned firm specializing in fabric dyes of a superior quality and class. In 1954, the Crompton & Knowles Corporation of Worcester, Massachusetts acquired Althouse, which continued to operate as a division of Crompton & Knowles and a leader in the specialty dyes industry. KW - Dye industry KW - Employees KW - Scientific apparatus and instruments KW - Dyes and dyeing KW - Althouse Chemical Company KW - Research, Industrial--Laboratories LA - ER -