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 - James Feeman using portable pH meter at Crompton & Knowles Research Center ID - m039k4903 DA - 1966/// YR - 1966 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/m039k4903 AB - View of chemist James F. Feeman using a portable pH meter, designed by the Althouse Chemical Company, in a laboratory at the Crompton & Knowles Research Center in Gibraltar, Pennsylvania. A special stirring table for the manufacture and testing of dyestuffs is visible on the right. Based in Worcester, Massachusetts, Crompton & Knowles initially specialized in the manufacture of textile machinery and diversified its business with the purchase of the Althouse Chemical Company in 1954. The purchase of Althouse laid the foundation for Crompton & Knowles' manufacture of specialty dyestuffs for a variety of industries and applications, including paper, leather, printing ink, and heat transfer printing establishments, in addition to the textile and garment industry. KW - Dye industry KW - Employees KW - Scientific apparatus and instruments KW - Dyes and dyeing KW - Crompton & Knowles Corporation KW - Althouse Chemical Company KW - Research, Industrial--Laboratories KW - Feeman, James LA - ER -