(left to right): George Gallowhur (1905-1974), Frank Elmer Delano (1911-1985), and Richard Delano
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Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintGeorge Gallowhur (1905-1974) (at left) was an industrialist who had invented the sunscreen Skol and whose company, Gallowhur Chemical Corp., was manufacturing a new "sunstill" (which used solar energy to distill salt water into drinking water); Frank Elmer Delano (1911-1985) (center), a cousin of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was a Navy lieutenant in the Bureau of Aeronautics; Richard Delano (at right), another cousin of the President, had invented the sunstill for use in pilot rescue kits during World War II. In this 1945 photograph, the three are posing in an exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-0962
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
1945
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-0962]