Powers and Weightman

FIGURE 5.4. Thomas H. Powers, one of the founding partners of Powers and Weightman, a major pharmaoeutioal produoer in Philadelphia. Photo oourtesy of Merok Arohives, Merok Co., Ino., Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. 

No matter how many indigenous herbs could be collected, this cmde drug supply needed to be made into medicine, and thus the accumulation of plant stores did not remove the necessity for an infrastructure of manufacture. Medicinal substances, whether botanical or chemical, usually needed some processing from their natural state. Without anything near the industrial capacity of Tilden and Company, Rosengarten and Sons, Powers and Weightman, Edward R. 

Frederick B G, Power J R, Cole R J, Perry C C, Chen Q, Flaq S, Bertrams T, Richardson N V and Weightman P 1998 Adsorbate azimuthal orientation from reflectance anisotropy spectroscopy P/rys. Rev. Lett. 80 4490-3... 

See References to the Exhibits of Powers Weightman and the Exhibitions of The Eranklin Institute, Merck Archives, PWR files. 

The American house of Merck, established in 1887 in New York and organi2 d in 1891 as Merck Co. by George Merck, grandson of Heinrich Emanuel Merck, was incorporated in 1908 in New York and in 1919 became an independent American enterprise, consolidated with Powers-Weightman-Rosengarten Co. of Philadelphia, Pa., in 1927 to form Merck Co., Inc. 

Powers Weightman - originally opened by Abraham Kunzi and John-Farr ( - 1847) in 1818 after the death of Kunzi, Thomas H. Powers (-1813 - 1878) and William Weightman (1813 - 1904), the nephew of Farr, became partners in 1838 the firm became the largest pharmaceutical company in the U.S., which was taken over by Merck in 1927. 

Frederick, B., Cole, R., Power, J., Perry, C., Chen, Q., Richardson, N., Weightman, R, Verdozzi, C., Jennison, D., Schultz, R, and Sears, M. (1998). Molecular orientation with visible light Reflectance-anisotropy spectroscopy of 3-thiophene carboxylate on Cu(llO) surfaces. Phys. Rev. B, 58 10883 -10889. 

Includes proprietors and partners of private consulting laboratories or firms and chemist-entrepreneurs who worked in companies which they or their families had established (e.g., A. D. Little, Inc. Bakelite Corporation Dewey Almy Chemical Company William H. Nichols Company and Powers-Weightman-Rosengarten Chemical Company). 

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