Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a worker at the Reed and Reese Incorporated plant in Pasadena, ca.1950. A man wearing glasses holds a metal can with some substance in it, and seems to read the label. Across him, at left, a table lined with a sheet is dotted with an assortment of tools. Rows of tins and bottles line the shelves on the table, and in the wall, which extends to the right. Photoprint reads "Reed and Reese Incorporated, 697. No. Lake Avenue, Pasadena 6, California. Lab technician, Bob Hyatt, mixing experimental blend of electro plastics for the impregnation (and later encapsulation) of Reed & Reese coils for a high temperature (1000 degrees Farenheit) solenoid application. It has been pollicy to impregnate coils at full vacuum that use size forty wire or up, the reason being that there is a greater likelihood of the smaller wire contacting under vibration and then shorting out".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
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