Dr. Ruby Worner operates a crease meter in a textile laboratory at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards
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Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 06-135, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2015-004747
Dr. Ruby K. Worner (b. 1900) had been educated at the University of Chicago (B.S., 1921; M.S., 1922; Ph.D. in chemistry, 1925) and worked in the textile laboratories at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards from 1929 to 1940. She is shown demonstrating a machine that measured the resistance of different materials to creasing, that is, to the amount of ́sprinǵ in the material.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 06-135, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2015-004747
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 06-135 [SIA2015-004747]
Photographic prints; 10 x 8