From: Edward Movitz <movitz**At_Symbol_Here**OLEMISS.EDU>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Common industrial lab safety practices 1906-1930?
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 14:16:26 +0000
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Pete,

I have researched this in the past, and the easy answer to seeing into the past is Google.


Do a search at Google for:


chemistry lab photo 1900's


Then click on images under the search box.


I like the hooded nurses in lab. What a fashion statement. 


Or, just click on:


https://www.google.com/search?q=chemistry+lab+photo+1900%27s&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjExrCivrjUAhXD4IMKHU4aDF0QsAQIJQ&biw=1269&bih=621&dpr=1.5#imgdii=YK1Rx3tmUv0Z8M:&imgrc=VOyCytSWIpQhJM:


Ed




 

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From: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU> on behalf of Reinhardt, Peter <peter.reinhardt**At_Symbol_Here**YALE.EDU>
Sent: Friday, June 9, 2017 2:15 PM
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Common industrial lab safety practices 1906-1930?
 

Colleagues,

 

With the wisdom of this listserve, I bet a few of you may provide some information on this topic.

 

A family member is writing a history of a relative who was a Harvard-educated dye chemist at a New England textile firm from 1906 until about 1930. At that time his health began to deteriorate and he "retired" from chemistry. He died in 1936 of liver cancer at 51 years of age.

 

Both she and I know it is highly speculative to associate his work and poor health, but she wonders what laboratory safety precautions might have been in common industrial use during that time. Do you know?

 

When I worked at the University of Wisconsin, a retired chemistry professor there told me that his first "gas mask" was purchased from army surplus prior to WW II. In my career, I've helped remodel labs with functional fume hoods dating from the 1920s. Were masks, gloves, hoods, etc. in common use in industrial labs between 1906 and 1930?

 

Perhaps there is a book that traces this safety history. If so, I'd appreciate hearing about it.

 

Thank you!

 

Pete

 

Peter A. Reinhardt

Director, Office of Environmental Health & Safety

Yale University

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New Haven, CT   06510-2411

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