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Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 579
National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Physical Sciences
Research Records, 1955-1966 and undated
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Physical Sciences |
Title: | Research Records |
Dates: | 1955-1966 and undated |
Quantity: | 3.5 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (1 document box) |
Collection: | Record Unit 579 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This record unit includes the research files of Robert P. Multhauf, Curator in the Division of Physical Sciences. The records contain scripts for Hall of Chemistry exhibitions; historical information and illustrations pertaining to chemistry, chemical apparatus, and industrial laboratories; biographies of distinguished chemists; and selected early twentieth-century scientific catalogs and articles on chemistry. Also included are the research files of Eduard Farber, a visiting scholar. |
Descriptive Entry
This record unit consists of the research files of Robert P. Multhauf, Curator in the Division of Physical Sciences. The records contain scripts for Hall of Chemistry exhibitions; historical information and illustrations pertaining to chemistry, chemical apparatus, and industrial laboratories; biographies of distinguished chemists; and selected early twentieth-century scientific catalogs and articles on chemistry. Also included are the research files of Edouard Farber, a visiting scholar.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Farber, Eduard, 1892-
- Multhauf, Robert P.
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Hall of Chemistry
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 579, National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Physical Sciences, Research Records
Container List
Box 1
Chemistry, Exhibits
The Chemical Manipulation of Water and Air
Materials Required: Hall of Chemistry
Hall of Chemistry, General
Origins of chemistry
Discovery of Elements
Chemical Revolution
Early Laboratory
1790 Laboratory
Analytical Chemistry
Experimental Chromatography
The Chemical Reactions
Tools and the Chemist
United States Chemistry
Industrial Chemistry: Introduction
Industrial Chemistry: Liquid Air
Industrial Chemistry: Miscellaneous Illustrations
Pilot Plant
Coal Tar and Dyes: Illustrations
Electrochemistry: Illustrations and Sample
Plastics
Organic Chemistry
Fermentation: Illustrations
Soda Animation: Specifications
Frasch Sulfur Animation: Specifications
Sulfuric Acid
Alkali
Gas Industry: Illustrations
Chemistry: Miscellaneous Exhibits
Exhibits Drawings
Optical Instruments: Exhibits
Chemistry: Exhibits
Chemical Museum Photographs, Aida M. Doyle Art, New York Museum of Science & Industry
Chemistry: Exhibits, Aida M. Doyle Reports on Museum
List of Chemicals in Section of Manufactures, Aida M. Doyle, November 5, 1941
Tycho Brahe's Quadrans Minor
Chemistry, Apparatus
Chemical Apparatus: Analytical
Density (specific gravity), Solid, Liquid (for gas per molecule weight apparatus)
Chemical Apparatus - History
Chemical Apparatus, ca. 1926
Chemistry Apparatus, Modern
Melting Point Apparatus
Molecular Weight Apparatus, Vapor Density Method
Chemical Apparatus: Pneumatic Chemistry, Early Apparatus
Chemical Apparatus, Saccharimeters
Chemical Apparatus, Supports, etc.
Chemical Apparatus, Miscellaneous
Farber, Dr. Edouard
Farber, Chemistry
Museum Hermeticum
Dr. Edouard Farber
5/6/7 Items
Work Sheets: First Panel and Index Table
Ammonia Synthesis: Illustrations
Descriptions
Distillation
Dyestuffs
Electrochemistry
Electrochemistry Specifications Multiple Evaporation, Patented 1888
Fermentation Scheme, Edouard Farber
Instruments
Organic
Organic Chemistry Apparatus
Pilot Plant
Polymers
Polymers Specifications
Sulfuric Acid and Soda
Finalizing
Chemical Engineering News Price List, December 1959
Box 2
Chemistry, Technical Data
Chemistry, Miscellaneous Technical Data
Saline Water Distillation, Technical Reports, 1960
Chemistry, History
Alchemy
Analytical
Atomic Weights
Coal Tar Dyes
Metallurgy
Rare Earths
Recent History
Spectroscopy
Gunpowder
Miscellaneous
Articles from R. Brown, ed., Science for All, ca. 1890 (?)
Chemistry, Biographical
Acheson, Edward G., Carborundum
Davy (1778-1829), Sir Humphry
Ehrlich, Paul
Faraday (1791-1867), Michael
Gibbs, J. Willard
Hare, Robert
Langley (1841-1918), John Williams
Lavoisier (1743 - ), Antoine
Priestly (1733-1804), Joseph: Chemical Apparatus
Richards, T. W.
Popular Articles on Famous Chemists
Industrial Chemistry
Acid, Hydrochloric, nitric
Alum
Ammonia
Apparatus
Borax
Celluloid, Production Photographs, 1935
Celluloid, 1878
Coal Gas and Distillation
Distillation
Dow Chemical Company
DuPont
Dyes
Hydrogen and Oxygen
Heavy Chemicals, 1918-1919; Articles from DuPont Magazine
Lime
Mercury
Metallurgy
Paint
Plastics
Phosphorus
Sal Ammoniac
Salt
Soda
Solvay Processing Company
Sodium and Potassium
Sulfur
Acid, Sulfuric
History
Coal Tar Dye Samples
Economic Data, 1939
History - Chronology from Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol. 18, No., 9, 1930
Historical Sequence / Manufactures of Chemicals
Illustrations 1750-1875; Report by Dr. Edouard Farber, March 17, 1961
Assignment: Clark BR. Gas Patent to Karr, 1877 Cat. No. 180985
Chemistry, Illustrations
Museum Photographs
Photographs of Chemical Literature
Industrial Apparatus and Processes
Laboratory Apparatus and Scenes
Portraits
Illustrations Before 1600
Miscellaneous Negatives
Chemistry: Miscellaneous Advertisements
Box 3
Dumas Apparatus for Vapor Density Determination
Edouard Farber, History of Phosphorus: Negatives
Surveying Illustrations
Images of Apparatus
Exhibit Script Proposals on "Materials," c. 1984?
Oceanography, Technical Data
Sounding
Hydrography, Current Meters
Venturi Meters
Water Level Recorder
Tide and River Stage Gauges - Illustrations
Oceanography - Magazine Articles
Tagliabue, Guiseppe
Maury, M. F.
Measurement - Fluid Flow
Oceanography: Illustrations
Industrial Laboratory History
Introductory Remarks
Aluminum Company of America
Anaconda American Brass Company, Waterbury, Connecticut
Lederle Laboratories Division of the American Cyanamid Co., Pearl River, New York
Brown Company, Berlin, New Hampshire
The Bell Telephone Laboratories Incorporated
ARMCO Steel Corporation
Carborundum Company, Niagara Falls
Corning Glass Company, Corning, New York
E. I. DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware
Eastman Kodak, Rochester, New York
General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York
Institute of Industrial Research, Washington, D. C.
Arthur D. Little Incorporated
Monsanto Chemical Company, St. Louis, Missouri
Parke, Davis & Company, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Pennsylvania Railroad Testing Laboratory, Altoona, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Scovill Manufacturing Company, Waterbury 20, Connecticut
Socony Mobil oil Company, Inc., New York
Standard Oil Company of Indiana (American Oil Company), Laboratory in Whiting, Indiana
Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts
Swift and Company, Chicago, Illinois
United Shoe Machinery Company, Boston, Massachusetts
United States Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Westinghouse Electric Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Museum Business
Academic Meetings, 1963
Museum of History and Technology Organization
Accessioning
Book Lists
Patent Office Business
Library of Congress Business
National Archives Business
Labels, Samples
Forms
Miscellaneous Lists of Addresses
Miscellaneous - Old and New Literature
Instrument Catalogues, Modern
Instrument Catalogues, Pre-1920
Miscellaneous: Scientific Articles Before 1930
Chemical Education Literature
Miscellaneous: Articles in History of Chemistry
Manuals, Articles - Modern
Box 4
Modern Journals
Oceanographic Instruments - Illustration of those Used on the Albatross Expedition (see United States National Museum Bulletin 27)
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