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Wilbur Olin Atwater Papers

The Wilbur Olin Atwater Papers contain correspondence, photographs, publications, and data sheets related to Atwater's research in the chemical composition of foods, dietary studies, and the respiration calorimeter.

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Lowering bananas into a small calorimeter

Date: circa 1912

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Front view of respiration calorimeter. Air pump, water meter, observers table and entrance to the respiration chamber are shown in detail. The large balance at the left of the picture is used for weighing the caron-dioxid and water absorbers and the oxygen cylinder. Judd Hall, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

Date: circa 1899

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Subject on bicycle ergometer

Date: circa 1892-1907

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Calorimeter subject knitting, Washington D.C.

Date: circa 1892-1907

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Subject in respiration calorimeter at lunch

Date: circa 1915

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Device for the removal of the respiratory products from the respiration chamber

Date: circa 1892-1907

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Respiration calorimeter, Washington D.C.

Date: circa 1915

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Observer operating large calorimeter, Washington D.C.

Date: circa 1910

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Wilbur Olin Atwater's summer school students at Wesleyan

Date: 1902

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Dr. Wilbur Olin Atwater (1844-1907), first director of the first state-supported agricultural experiment station (Connecticut) and the first director of the Federal Office of Experiment Stations

Date: circa 1880s

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Wilbur Olin Atwater

Date: circa 1880s

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Wilbur Olin Atwater graduation portrait

Date: 1865

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Calorimeter subject washing clothes, Washington D.C.

Date: circa 1892-1907

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Calorimeter subject ironing clothes, Washington D.C.

Date: circa 1892-1907

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Subject emerging from large respiration calorimeter

Date: 1910

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