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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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Barry Evans. Photo Research LaboratoryCompleted for Pahco Emeryville, California Completion of the new Research Laboratory atthe Emeryville plant of The Paraffine Companies,Inc., provides the West Coast with one of thelargest and most completely equipped buildingmaterial research centers in the world. Extensiveadditions and general improvement in researchfacilities have been effected at an expenditure ofwell over a half-million dollars. The four-story, Research Building houses severalgroups of laboratories; a library with a compre- NOVEMBER, 1947 hensive collection of technical journals and books;executive offices and a well-ordered storeroom.Important units include an air-conditioned con-ductivity room equipped with machinery for test-ing the resistance of material to heat and cold;an air-conditioned micro-analytical room and aweatherometer room which affords an acceleratedmethod of testing the resistance of products toexposure. In addition to the latest, most up-to-date standard 25
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View of organic research laboratory, one of the manyspecialized centers within the Pabco Research Building.Shown on left is instrument panel of equipment for study-ingrhe processing of asphalt and pitch. equipment found throughout PABCOs ResearchLaboratory, special machinery designed to thecompanys specifications has been installed. Pilotequipment simulating manufacturing equipmenthas been set up to aid in studying product qualityand production methods through actual small scalemanufacture. Staiis of Chemists Doubled In the expansion move, The Paraffine Com-panies Inc., has more than doubled its staff ofscientists and is engaged in a continual search formen with outstanding qualifications. The firm hasattracted a group of chemists and chemical engi-neers from every section of the United States. Thestaff members hold degrees from 24 American andforeign universities, and they participate in theactivities of 19 different scientific and technicalsocieties. Dr. A. M. Ersine, Director of th

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