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Scientific apparatus and instruments -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

The Otto Rohm collection

 Collection
Identifier: A87-99
Scope and Contents

The ledger contains data kept by one or more Rohm and Haas employees documenting their use of a Haber-Lowe Industrial Interferometer for purposes of quality control. Accompanying the ledger is a folder of material gathered by Raymond C. Ferguson to produce the article "A Pioneering Example of Quality Control. The Rohm and Haas Oropon Interferometer.".

Dates: 1914-1916

The Papers of Charles M. Judson, incorporating the Papers of Harold F. Wiley and the Records of Consolidated Electrodynamics Corporation

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-007-001
Abstract

This collection contains professional records of Charles M. Judson, and his former supervisor Harold F. Wiley. Wiley's papers in turn include the surviving business records of the Consolidated Electrodynamics Corporation, a leading American manufacturer of mass spectrometers. The material was amassed by Judson for a never-written history of the commercial development of mass spectrometry.

Dates: 1918-2000; Majority of material found within 1940-1980

The Papers of Robert E. Finnigan

 Collection
Identifier: 2013-036
Abstract

This is a small collection of materials collected by the donor Robert E. Finnigan, for their significance in telling the story of the development of Mass Spectroscopy and the part played in that development by the Finnigan Corporation Photographs and slides have been removed from the collection and deposited in CHF Image Archives. There are Finnigan instrumentation manuals and ads in the CHF Instrumentation Manual Collection.

Dates: 1953-1995; Majority of material found within 1962-1989

Varian Associates schematics

 Collection
Identifier: 2023-508
Scope and Contents

These are miscellaneous schematics from Varian Associates for their Model V6060 mass spectrometer and other products. All date from the period 1960-1963. About half is related to the Model V6060, but the rest is a miscellany.

Dates: 1960-1963

Weibel Hewlett Packard HP5930A Mass Spectrometer materials

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-038
Abstract

This is a collection of instrumentation manuals and data tapes originally presented as a Historic Exhibit at the 55th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry held in Indianapolis, IN June 3-7, 2007.

Dates: 1968-1979

Weston Anderson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2016-007
Abstract

Laboratory notebooks, printed materials, personal files, audio-visual materials, and photographic materials of American physicist and inventor Weston Anderson.

Dates: 1953-2015; Majority of material found within Bulk 1957-1998

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