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Herbert Henry Dow (February 26, 1866 – October 15, 1930) was an American chemical industrialist who founded the American multinational conglomerate Dow Chemical.A graduate of the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, Ohio, he was a prolific inventor of chemical processes, compounds, and products, notably bromine extraction from sea water, and was a successful businessman.
Founder Herbert Henry Dow Bromine. Dow was founded in 1897 by chemist Herbert Henry Dow, who invented a new method of extracting the bromine that was trapped underground in brine at Midland, Michigan. [10] The company originally sold only bleach and potassium bromide, achieving a bleach output of 72 tons a day in 1902. [11]
Herbert Henry Dow High School (H.H. Dow High School) is a public high school located in Midland, Michigan, United States.The school, a part of Midland Public Schools, is a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence [5] and in 2008 was named one of the top 20 High Schools in Michigan in a study commissioned by U.S. News & World Report.
Herbert Henry Dow High School opened to sophomores in 1968, and added one grade each year until the first class graduated in 1971. A freshman class was added to high schools in 1997 and intermediate schools changed from grades 7-8-9 to 6-7-8; school names were changed from Intermediate to Middle School.
The Herbert H. Dow House stands within Dow Gardens, a private park open to the public. It is an architecturally vernacular 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, with a diversity of projections, roof styles, and window sizes and shapes.
She was born in Michigan as Grace Anna Ball in 1869 to Arnelia and George Willard Ball, a schoolteacher and banker, respectively. In 1892, she married Herbert Henry Dow in Midland, Michigan. [1] Grace and Herbert raised seven children together.
1891 Dow process. The Dow process is the electrolytic method of bromine extraction from brine, and was Herbert Henry Dow's second revolutionary process for generating bromine commercially in 1891. [20] 1891 Tesla coil. A Tesla coil is a type of resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla around 1891. Nikola Tesla used these coils to ...
Herbert Henry Dow (great-grandfather) Diane Buchanan "Dede" Wilsey (born 1944) is an American socialite, Republican Party donor, and philanthropist, who lives in San Francisco. [ 1 ] She is the widow and heir of the San Francisco dairy and real estate businessman Al Wilsey, and the Chair Emerita of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco .