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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.
Although the platforms of the party in 1872 and 1876 included support and opposition to multiple issues, the platform drafted and accepted at the 1880 national convention only included support for issues relating to the prohibition of alcohol and women's suffrage due to the fact that the narrow gauger faction, which supported a single issue prohibitionist platform, was the group writing it.
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]
Henry Ford: 1863 Automobile [43] 1982 Max Tishler: 1906 Synthetic vitamins [44] 1982 Ottmar Mergenthaler: 1854 Linotype [45] 1982 Jack Kilby * 1923 Integrated circuit [46] 1983 Andrew Alford: 1904 VHF omnidirectional range [47] 1983 George Stibitz: 1904 Digital computer [48] 1983 Herbert Henry Dow: 1866 Bromine extraction [49] 1983 Ernst ...
Eliphaz Dow (1705–1755), first male executed in New Hampshire; G. M. Keith Dow (born 1937), Canadian politician; Gardner Dow (1898–1919), American college football player; Harold Dow (1947–2010), from the 48 Hours Mystery TV series; Herbert Henry Dow (1866–1930), founder of Dow Chemical Company; James R. Dow, professor of German language
Herbert and Henry were arrested at about 8 a.m. and dragged before a justice of the peace, each sentenced to 15 days in Schoharie County Jail — Herbert for driving without a license, Henry for ...
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 ...
At the first rest stop, their usual one, a flyer pinned to the bulletin board outside the unheated bathrooms lists suicide hotline numbers: “If you are depressed please Avoid drugs and alcohol. Talk to someone, express your feelings.” The temperature drops from 6 degrees to 3 to 1. A road sign reads “Pass With Care.”