Engineering, Building, and Architecture - Overview
Not many museums collect houses. The National Museum of American History has four, as well as two outbuildings, 11 rooms, an elevator, many building components, and some architectural elements from the White House. Drafting manuals are supplemented by many prints of buildings and other architectural subjects. The breadth of the museum's collections adds some surprising objects to these holdings, such as fans, purses, handkerchiefs, T-shirts, and other objects bearing images of buildings.
The engineering artifacts document the history of civil and mechanical engineering in the United States. So far, the Museum has declined to collect dams, skyscrapers, and bridges, but these and other important engineering achievements are preserved through blueprints, drawings, models, photographs, sketches, paintings, technical reports, and field notes.
"Engineering, Building, and Architecture - Overview" showing 889 items.
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[Trade catalogs from Pettibone Mulliken Co.]
- Date
- 1900s
- Variant company name
- Established 1880 ; Prior to WWII, this company was this company was a leading manufacturer of railroad track equipment such as such as frogs, crossings, and switches. After the war, it diversified and began to make construction and foundry equipment such as graders, lifts, and loaders. By 2000, Pettibone was based out of Des Plaines, Illinois, and manufactured construction, forestry, foundry, railroad, and scrap-processing equipment. http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2810.html
- Company Name
- Pettibone Mulliken Co.
- Related companies
- Pettibone Corp.; Nucorp Inc. ; Hako Minuteman Inc.; in 1994 it was purchased by a privately owned holding company called Heico Corp. ; Today (9/2007) known as Pettibone LLC. ; Beardsley & Piper Co. ; PM subsidiaries included: George Haiss Mfg. Co. Inc. , Universal Engineering Corp. and Hammermills, Inc.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_31440
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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[Trade catalogs from Pfaudler Co.]
- Date
- 1900s
- Variant company name
- Founded 1884 ; http://www.pfaudler.com/ ; The roots of The Pfaudler Company are traced to the brewery industry. In the late 19th century, a young machinist named Casper Pfaudler searched for a way to speed up the fermentation process by the application of vacuum. This required a suitable sanitary container. After much experimentation with materials such as wood, stone, and terra cotta, the solution was glass-lined steel and in 1884 the Pfaudler Vacuum Fermentation Process Company was organized. Although the vacuum process proved unsatisfactory for the fermentation of beer, the by-product of this process, glass-lined steel equipment, was used for handling, storing, and transportation of beer and became the basis for a new industry. To keep pace with increasing orders, in 1903 a plant was constructed in Rochester, NY and named the Pfaudler Company. This is Pfaudler's present location, including many of the original buildings. After the passage of the U.S. Pure Food & Drug laws in 1906, sanitary, easy to clean equipment was needed for food and dairy products. Glass-lined steel was ideal for these purposes. In the 1920's the chemical processing industry began to grow in the U.S. and a corrosion resistant material was needed. Pfaudler's scientists modified the brewery glass formulation to provide the increased acid resistance needed for chemical process and storage vessels. Also, at this time, Pfaudler pioneered ways to fabricate and weld a new material, stainless steel, which found uses within the food and dairy industries. In fact, during World War II Pfaudler's stainless steel tanks were supplied for research and development of the atomic bomb for the Manhattan Project. But this was not Pfaudler's most important contribution to World War II. The Japanese had effectively closed off the supply of natural rubber to the U.S. Obviously rubber was a critical material needed for our war efforts. Many leading U.S. chemical companies quickly pooled their talents and developed the co-polymerization of styrene and butadiene into synthetic rubber. Now large, one-piece, high pressure vessels were required to process this new material. Pfaudler scientists and engineers quickly met this difficult task and many glass-lined polymerization reactors were designed and fabricated by Pfaudler to meet this most critical demand. Also in the 1940's, the chemical and pharmaceutical industries began to rely more and more on Pfaudler equipment. Sulfa drugs, antibiotics, synthetic vitamins, insulin and vaccines were produced in our reactors. In the 1950's Pfaudler led the development in the fabrication and welding of reactive metals such as tantalum, zirconium, and niobium. Now many years later the chemical and pharmaceutical industries still rely on the outstanding characteristics of Pfaudler equipment. Pfaudler is a world leader in providing glass lined reactors along with other corrosion resistant equipment and modular process systems to the pharmaceutical, chemical and other process industries. Our manufacturing facilities around the globe service the specific requirements of our customers.
- Company Name
- Pfaudler Co.
- Related companies
- Pfaudler Vacuum Fermentation Process Company : Robbins & Myers Corp. ; Sybron Corp. ; Pfaudler Permutit Inc. ; Permutit Co.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_31552
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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[Trade catalogs from Phelps Dodge Corp.]
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- Phelps Dodge Corp.
- Related companies
- Phelps Dodge Copper Products Corp. ; Phelps Dodge Refining Corp. ; Phelps Dodge Industries, Inc. ; Habirshaw Cable and Wire Corp. (a division of PD Copper Products Corp.) ; Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Mfg. Co.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_31729
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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[Trade catalogs from Philco]
- Date
- 1900s
- Variant company name
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philco ; http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/philco.htm
- Company Name
- Philco
- Related companies
- Spencer Co. ; Helios Co. ; Philadelphia Storage Battery Co. ; Ford Motor Co. ; Ford Aerospace ; Cramer Electronics, Inc.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_32116
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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[Trade catalogs from Philips]
- Date
- 1900s
- Variant company name
- http://www.philips.com/ ; http://www.philips.com/about/company/history/index.page ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips ; http://www.hoovers.com/philips-electronics/--ID__41823--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml ; http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Philips-Electronics-North-America-Corp-Company-History.html ;
- Company Name
- Philips
- Related companies
- Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics N.V.); usually known as Philips [The company is organized into several divisions: Philips Consumer Electronics, Philips Lighting, Philips Medical Systems and Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal Care.] ; during WWII, they moved operations to the US and used the name ; Operating from the US as the North American Philips Co. moved back after the war ; 1991, the US operation changed its name to Philips Electronics North America Corp. and the overall company's name was changed from N.V. Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken to Philips Electronics N.V.; Philips Lamps Ltd. (UK) ; Philips Business Systems, Inc. ; Norelco
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_32117
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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[Trade catalogs from Phillips Machinery Co.]
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- Phillips Machinery Co.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_32179
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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[Trade catalogs from Pickard & Burns, Inc.]
- Date
- 1900s
- Variant company name
- Pickard & Burns was started in 1911 by G.W. Pickard, the inventor of the silicone crystal diode, the forerunner of all transistors.
- Company Name
- Pickard & Burns, Inc.
- Related companies
- Cardwell Condeser Corp., http://www.cardwellcondenser.com/PAGES/history.html
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_32489
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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[Trade catalogs from Picker X-Ray Corp.]
- Date
- 1900s
- Variant company name
- http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/picker.html
- Company Name
- Picker X-Ray Corp.
- Related companies
- Picker AEI ; Picker Nuclear ; Picker International ; Philips Medical Systems ; Marconi Medical Systems
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_32491
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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[Trade catalogs from Benj. Pike's Son & Co.]
- Date range
- 1800s-1900s
- Variant company name
- Established 1804, disolved 1867 :
- Company Name
- Benj. Pike's Son & Co.
- Related companies
- Benjamin Pike & Sons Co. ;
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_32564
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries