Newspaper articles, patent list, photographs, correspondence, articles and reports surrounding the career of Alden H. Burkholder ('28), who spearheaded research in the Rayon industry. Folder A: Newspaper articles, list of patents that include Burkholder's name, correspondence with MC Professor Carl Holl, plant photographs. Folder B: Physical plant and personal photographs. Packet: "Absorption at Crystal-Solution Interfaces," Alden Burkholder, a Thesis Presented for the Dgree of Master of Science, Ohio State University. Folder 1: Cones and Tubes - black and white photographs and handwritten notes illustrating and describing production process. Folder 2:Handwritten notes concerning the chemistry of viscose. Folder 3: Handwritten notes regarding dangerous gasses in the production of viscose rayon. Folder 4: "The Nyloft Process, Exhibit C." Folder 5: Pulp production procedure. Folder 6: "Tires Changed Here...and the change is to TYREX* Cord. [Stanley System]. Folder 7: "From Wood Pulp to Rayon." Folder 8: Newspaper articles. Folder 9: Ohio State University correspondence - 1928 Board of Trustee acceptance of Burkholder as a Graduate Assistant in the Department of Chemistry - 1929 recommendation into candidacy for Master's degree - 1929 election to active membership in the Omega Chapter of the Society of Sigma Xi - 1929 waiver of the final oral examination for the Master's degree. Industrial Rayon Corporation correspondence and photographs of colleagues and physical plant - family correspondence and official corporate letter regarding 1935 strike - proposed changes to the Code of the Rayon Industry 1933 - salary/bonus/stock payments - 1929 offer to employ Burkholder as a research chemist for the Industrial Rayon Corporation and Burkholder's acceptance letter - additional correspondence. Folder 10: Physical plant photographs - handwritten talk delivered September 1988(?) regarding the history of the production of Rayon - agenda for 1965 "Operation Get-Together" - 1965 report listing research projects and addition to Painesville plant along with physical characteristics and uses of rayon - "The 'Weaving Cone'" [1969, 24 page historical report by Burkholder] - "Continuous Spinning of Tire Yarn" [1969, 11 page historical report by Burkholder] - "Production of 'Tyrex' High Strength Tire yarn and Modified Staple" [historical report by Burkholder] - loose pg. 21 "The Nyloft Process" - newspaper article, "IRC'S Rayon Line Now a Page of Area History" - 1972 correspondence between Century Rayon and Alden Burkholder regarding reasons for their possible problems - "Report on Caustic Soda, Hemi-cellulose," signed by I. T. Meyer - 1956 thank you letter from Kanegafuchi Spinning Co., Ltd., - Correspondence between Century Rayon, Maharashta, India and Alden Burkholder (1972) regarding production problems - a miscellaneous photo of a spindle with "thread" and a miscellaneous report page. Folder 11: Professional correspondence - "Fiber Family Tree and 1953 Synthetic-Fiber Table" - newspaper articles. Folder 12: Letter and photographs taken May 1969 (perhaps from Midland-Ross Corporation, but engraving on tray is not clear, even when scanned and digitally enhanced) - other photographs of physical plants, Burkholder, and colleagues. Brochures: "Rayon, Mile By Mile...Perfect Inch By Inch." "To Make TYREX* Tire Cord - You Take Wood and a Tiger...," "Making Market Pulps at International's NATCHEZ MILL." "NUPRON Modulized (tm) Rayon Adds All 3, Comfort, Beauty, Strength." "Industrial Rayon Corporation organization Chart." "1938 Was A Good Model Year For People, Too," 1968 promotional for Industrial Rayon.
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