Laboratory notebooks, 1900-1927.

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Laboratory notebooks, 1900-1927.

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The collection consists of 19 vols. of Reese's laboratory notebooks, most dating from his tenure at New Jersey Zinc. A minority of the books cover some of his early work for Du Pont. One of the volumes contains notes for a speech to the Michigan Engineering Society on the nature of industrial research on July 3, 1927.

19 vols.

Hagley Museum & Library

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Reese, Charles L. (Charles Lee), 1862-1940

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Charles L. Reese was a research chemist who received his Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg in 1886. After teaching, he developed a second career in industrial research with the New Jersey Zinc Company in 1900. In 1902 he became chief chemist at the Repauno Works of the Eastern Dynamite Company, controlled by the du Pont interests. From the description of Laboratory notebooks, 1900-1927. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122392308 Charles L...

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Repauno Works.

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New Jersey Zinc Company

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Sussex Zinc and Copper Mining and Manufacturing Company formed by Col. Samuel Fowler in Franklin, N.J., in 1848; included other mines in Sussex County, N.J.; in 1852 name changed to New Jersey Zinc Company; in 1880 to New Jersey Zinc and Iron Company and in 1897 renamed New Jersey Zinc Company; in 1965 became a subsidiary of Gulf & Western Industries; principal owner and operator of zinc ore deposits located in Franklin and Ogdensburg, N.J., with plants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania; headqu...