Games Slayter (1896-1964), Fiberglass Inventor, Receives Franklin Institute Medal
Close
Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintID: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-3440]
Creator: Bureau of Industrial Service
Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1940
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2009-3440
Left to right: Henry Butler Allen (1887-1962), secretary and director of The Franklin Institute, presented the Institute's Edward Longstreth Medal to Games Slayter (1896-1964), vice-president in charge of research, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, May 15, 1940. The Medal was given "in recognition of meritorious work in science and in the industrial arts" and Slayter was being honored for his development of a process for transforming glass into thread-like fibers (a product later named "Fiberglass)."
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2009-3440
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Glass fibers
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-3440]
Gelatin silver prints; 9.35 x 7.62