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Rubber, Artificial

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

David Spence: Guayule Rubber Project Records

 Collection
Identifier: 1998-001-001
Abstract

Reports, correspondence, patent files, reprints of articles, photographs, experiment files, and graphs belonging to Scottish-American rubber chemist David Spence. The materials in this collection document Spence’s involvement in Intercontinental Rubber Company’s efforts in producing rubber from guayule during the 1920s and 1930s and the Guayule Rubber Project during World War II.

Dates: 1910-1951; Majority of material found within Bulk 1926-1946

Papers of Wallace H. Carothers

 Collection
Identifier: 98-21
Scope and Contents

For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1049968~S6


This collection is not a unified compendium, rather it is an assemblage of surviving materials.

Dates: 1924-1978

The Carl S. Marvel papers

 Collection
Identifier: 88-11
Abstract

Collection covers Marvel's post-retirement career at the University of Arizona.

Dates: 1920-1988; Majority of material found within 1960-1984

William O. Baker Bell Laboratory collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2023-509
Abstract

This collection is really a research file consisting of ten key monographs by Baker and two articles on the Bell Laboratories, both dating from the period in which Baker served as vice president of the Research Division. The Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey were considered to be among the world's most advanced industrial research facilities. Eleven Nobel Prizes were awarded for research conducted at the labs during Baker's tenure there.

Dates: 1940-1976