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Chemical industry -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

Standard operating procedures from the Du Pont Corporation

 Collection
Identifier: 2006-011
Scope and content

This collection is comprised of typewritten production procedures collected into binders. The volumes give a comprehensive overview of the state of the Du Pont Corporation in the mid-1940s. In addition to recipes for the manufacture of their various products, they also provide information on which plants were doing what.

Dates: 1935-1944

The Dow Chemical Historical Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-064-002
Scope and content

The collection was divided into the series A/V, Artifacts, and Advertisements; Subject Files; Personal Papers; Image Archive.

Dates: 1897-2006; Majority of material found within 1900-1990

The John Beer historical reprint collection

 Collection
Identifier: 02-13-96-02
Scope and Contents For a full inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1056849~S6 Scope and content This is a collection of reprints written between 1926 and 1996. The reprints cover various aspects and personalities of the history of alchemy chemistry, and the molecular sciences....
Dates: 1926-1996

The Rohm & Haas Company archives

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-058
Scope and Contents

For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1059338~S6

Dates: 1743-1998; Majority of material found within 1907-1983

Uniroyal Chemical history materials

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-001
Scope and content

The collection consists of a photocopy of a typewritten paper by Borg on the history of Uniroyal Chemical and a special 75th Anniversary issue of Uniroyal Chem-Texts , vol. 13, 1979, No. 3 containing an abbreviated history of the company. This appears not to have written by Borg.

Dates: 1977-1979

Williams Haynes Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-002-001
Abstract

This collection was amassed by Williams Haynes during the course of a 38-year career as an editor and writer on the chemical industry, its history and the economic forces behind it.

Dates: 1904-1960; Majority of material found within 1926-1939

Williams-Miles Reprint Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GB98-09-001
Scope and Content For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1055622~S6This is a wide-ranging collection in both chronology and content; it contains over 1,500 reprints in English, German, French, Italian and Dutch. The collection covers all aspects of the history of chemistry, but is especially rich in content relating to alchemy...
Dates: 1771-1998