Description: This 8" by 10" (20.32 by 25.4 cm) image depicts Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's research laboratory during the 1920s. At the time the company had research laboratories located in the coke plant, open-hearth department, Bessemer department, and the main office building. These labs tested the quality of the raw materials before they were used to make steel and the finished steel before it was shipped. They also analyzed samples to develop the proper composition of steel and iron needed to meet the special demands of customers. In addition, the labs monitored the quality of water brought into the plant for use as drinking water and in the manufacturing process. In 1921, researchers processed about 12,000 samples per month, providing approximately 40,000 separate results. In 1924 the company's research labs were renamed the metallurgy department. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1637_1911244_005
Subjects: Business and Labor; Science and Technology; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Laboratories; Research facilities
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Joe Munroe captures Dr. Wise Burroughs at work in this 1952 photograph. As a research scientist, Burroughs inspects the content of a cow's first stomach, the rumen, through a surgically-implanted hole in the stomach. From this, researchers can gain information on the digestion of certain materials by the cow. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B11_F13_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farming; Agriculture--Research; Livestock--Research.;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: The main dairy barn at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station in Wooster. This property would later become Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute. The property can trace it's history back to 1882. The aims of this organization are to find ways to produce better crops to provide for the needs of an ever-growing world population. They also want to keep Ohio competitive in the field of agriculture through their work, finding ways to create more efficient crops that are also better for consumers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06811
Subjects: Agriculture--Research; Agricultural experimentation--Ohio; Dairy barns; Dairy industry
Places: Wooster (Ohio); Wayne County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: The administration building at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station in Wooster. This property would later become Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute. The aims of this organization are to find ways to produce better crops to provide for the needs of an ever-growing world population. They also want to keep Ohio competitive in the field of agriculture through their work, finding ways to create more efficient crops that are also better for consumers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06812
Subjects: Agriculture--Research; Agricultural experimentation--Ohio
Places: Wooster (Ohio); Wayne County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: The Department of Forestry Building at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station in Wooster. This property would later become Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute. The aims of this organization are to find ways to produce better crops to provide for the needs of an ever growing world population. They also want to keep Ohio competitive in the field of agriculture through their work, finding ways to create more efficient crops that are also better for consumers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06813
Subjects: Agriculture--Research; Agricultural experimentation--Ohio; Ohio State University
Places: Wooster (Ohio); Wayne County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: An aerial view of the Agricultural Experiment Station in Wooster. This property would later become Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute. The aims of this organization are to find ways to produce better crops to provide for the needs of an ever-growing world population. They also want to keep Ohio competitive in the field of agriculture through their work, finding ways to create more efficient crops that are also better for consumers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06816
Subjects: Agriculture--Research; Agricultural experimentation--Ohio; Ohio State University
Places: Wooster (Ohio); Wayne County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: This book is titled Heisters Chirugie (Heisters Surgery). It is dated 1731 and has paper and vellum pages. There is a hand-written inscription on the first page. On the title page is a photograph of D. Laurentii Heisters who wrote the book. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8434_closed
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Medicine--Research
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photo of a man who seems to be reading a preserved document. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F04_12_001
Subjects: Documents; Research; Reading
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This photograph of astronaut Judith Resnik working on an experiment was taken in May 1984. Resnik was preparing for a project aimed at separating large quantities of biological materials in space for ultimate use in pharmaceuticals. The experiment never took place in space, however, due to the tragic explosion of the space shuttle Challenger shortly after liftoff in 1986. Resnik (1949-1986) was born in Akron and graduated from Firestone High School. She earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1970, and a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland in 1977. She began working at RCA as a design engineer in 1971 and was a biomedical engineer and staff fellow in the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, from 1974 to 1977. She was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in 1978. During her first mission in space, Resnik and the crew of the Discovery became known as "Icebusters" by successfully removing hazardous ice particles from the orbiter using the Remote Manipulator System. Resnik was killed during her second mission on January 28, 1986 when the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3110_3671700_006
Subjects: Transportation; Science and Technology; Ohio Women; Flight; Aeronautics; Astronauts; Space flight; Resnik, Judith, 1949-1986; Discovery (Spacecraft); Challenger (Spacecraft); Medicine--Research
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing the Better Farming Special Train, a traveling agricultural demonstration, on behalf of the Agricultural Extension Service, College of Agriculture, Ohio State University, 1909. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00633
Subjects: Agricultural experimentation--Ohio; Agriculture--Research; Cultural Ohio--Education