Photographs from the Papers of Sam S. Brody

This collection consists of photographs, slides, and ephemera relating to the research and career of Samuel S. Brody. The bulk of the photographs are from the 1960s and include images of equipment and prints of research/experiment result graphs. This collection is organized into two thematic series. Series I: Equipment contains photographs of machinery and laboratory equipment, primarily relating to the FPD during his time at Melpar/Meloy. There is one photograph of Samuel Brody himself, pictured with the flame photometric detector and his co-inventors Alan Teets and Dominick Cassandra. The majority of the technical photographs are from his career at Melpar/Meloy laboratories, relating to his work with the FPD. Also included are photographs and slides of Agent Diffusion Monitors, also from Brody’s time at Melpar/Meloy. Series II: Research contains photographs and slides of graphs, charts, and presentations compiled by Sam Brody, dating between 1965 and 1973. 29 unique research graphs are included, all used to show his research with gas chromatography and the FPD. The majority of the slides include appear to have been created for different conferences where Brody attended and presented, as they are primarily charts and graphs showing his experiment results and other research. Presentation slides from the 1968 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) and the 1973 Ozone First International Symposium are among the most notable, but other presentation sets are included in the collection as well.