| LC control no. | n 83173677 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Dow, Herbert Henry, 1866-1930 |
| See also | Founded corporate body of person: Dow Chemical Company |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Navarre (Ohio) |
| Located | Midland (Mich.) |
| Birth date | 1866-02-26 |
| Death date | 1930-10-15 |
| Place of birth | Belleville (Ont.) |
| Place of death | Rochester (Minn.) |
| Field of activity | Chemical industry |
| Profession or occupation | Industrialists |
| Found in | Whitehead, D. The Dow story, 1983, c1968: CIP galley (Herbert Henry Dow) LC data base, 9/19/83 (hdg.: Dow, Herbert Henry, 1866-1930) Wikipedia, viewed 23 February 2023 (Herbert Henry Dow; born February 26, 1866 in Belleville, Ontario; died October 15, 1930 in Rochester, Minnesota; an early electrochemical pioneer, the Canadian-born American chemical industrialist founded the American multinational conglomerate Dow Chemical; in 1889 Dow received his first patent after inventing a more cost-effective and streamlined process for bromine extraction) Britannica website, viewed 23 February 2023 (Herbert H. Dow developed and patented electrolytic methods for extracting bromine from brine and in 1890 organized the Midland Chemical Company in Michigan; in 1895 he founded the Dow Process Company to electrolyze brine for chlorine (producing caustic soda and sodium hypochlorite) at Navarre, Ohio, soon moving the company to Midland and creating the Dow Chemical Company (1897) to absorb the Midland Chemical and Dow Process; his company became one of the world's leading chemical manufacturers) |
| Associated language | eng |
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