Creator: Egly, Richard S., 1914-2007 - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

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Extent:: 120 photographic prints (2 boxes)
Abstract:: Print photographs and scrapbook pages documenting the Commercial Solvents Corporation's nitroparaffin plant, explosions, tests for shipping nitromethane, and portraits of CSC employee Richard S. Egly.

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Extent:: 23.5 linear feet (17 boxes.)
Abstract:: Correspondence, patents, publications, notes, production plans, proposals, memos, reports, and data belonging to the Commercial Solvents Corporation (CSC), as well as the personal files of Richard S. Egly, CSC's Associate Scientific Director, and Emory E. Toops, Jr., a physical chemist in CSC's Technical Development Department. The collection deals with the production of nitroparaffins and nitroparaffin derivatives, an area in which Commercial Solvents Corporation was preeminent.

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