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Date Image Innovation City State Country
Dehydrated_shredded_potatoes Food Dehydration Technology Wyndmoor PA USA
Discovery of Helium in Natural Gas Discovery of Helium in Natural Gas Lawrence KS USA
Jamestown Chemistry at Jamestown Williamsburg VA USA
Izaak Maurits Kolthoff Izaak Maurits Kolthoff and Modern Analytical Chemistry Minneapolis MN USA
Williams-Miles History of Chemistry Collection Williams-Miles History of Chemistry Collection Searcy AR USA
1774 Discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestly Discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestly Northumberland PA USA
1789 Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier The Chemical Revolution - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier Paris France
1859 First Oil Well Development of the Pennsylvania Oil Industry Titusville PA USA
1865 Chandler Chemistry Laboratory Chandler Chemistry Laboratory Bethlehem PA USA
1869 Rumford Baking Powder Rumford Baking Powder Rumford RI USA
1876 John W. Draper Founding of the American Chemical Society New York City NY USA
1891 Herbert Dow in 1888 Photo courtesy of the Post Street Archives. First Electrolytic Production of Bromine Midland MI USA
1895 Morley with students and instructors, ca. 1893. Research on the Atomic Weight of Oxygen by Edward W. Morley Cleveland OH USA
1896 Columbia Dry Cell Battery Columbia Dry Cell Battery St. Louis MO USA
1898 Commercial Process for Producing Calcium Carbide and Acetylene Commercial Process for Producing Calcium Carbide and Acetylene Eden NC USA
1898 Havemeyer Hall Havemeyer Hall New York NY USA
1900 Discovery of Organic Free Radicals by Moses Gomberg Discovery of Organic Free Radicals by Moses Gomberg Ann Arbor MI USA
1901 Nucleic Acid and Protein Chemistry Research at Rockefeller University Nucleic Acid and Protein Chemistry Research at Rockefeller University New York NY USA
1901 NIST building National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Gaithersburg MD USA
1907 CAS Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Columbus OH USA

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