W.M. HUTCHINGS | SIGNED LETTER TO FREDERICK GARDNER COTTRELL
1916. Five-page ALS from W. M. Hutchings to Cottrell, dated March 21st, 1916, discussing some past difficulties in Hutching’s chemistry research and Cottrell’s progress in that area, which Hutchings requesting that Cottrell send one of his papers. In Very Good minus condition. Written on two four-page Cookson & Co. memorandum cards. Cards are lightly age toned and faintly creased, with rust marks on the top margins. Small stains on the first page; pencil bracket in the left margin of the second page. Written in black ink, signed by Hutchings: “W. M. Hutchings”. Shelved at DuPont Cottrell binder.
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NOTES
This piece comes from a large collection of letters to, from, and concerning Frederick Gardner Cottrell, a prominent American inventor and physical chemist. Best known for his invention of the electrostatic precipitator, a device which revolutionized emission-heavy industries, Cottrell rose to prominence for his endeavors to fund American scientific research through the establishment of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Cottrell was highly regarded by the other leading scientific minds of his age, a fact reflected in this collection of his letters with historic figures in research, academia, and American politics. Among these are Cottrell’s correspondences with Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and Nobel laureates William Ramsay (discoverer of the noble gases) and J. J. Thompson (discoverer of the electron), as well as exchanges with two American presidents, Herbert Hoover and Woodrow Wilson.