Technical Oil Mission

Miller, Albert E. "The Story of the Technical Oil Mission." Reprint of the Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Petroleum Institute, Chicago, Illinois, November 14, 1945,... 

K Fischer, Comparison of I. G. Work on Fischer Synthesis, Technical Oil Mission Report, Reel 13, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., July 1941. 

Technical Oil Mission, Reel 173, Frames 418, 529 Reel 254, Frames 418-423. 

Technical Oil Mission, Reel 205, Frames 736-754 or Reel 201, Frames 292-310. 

The ready availability of sufficient and suitable source material is a very important requirement. While some libraries have available on their shelves only the abstract journals and the main reference sources and rely on public and other outside libraries for other publications, yet it would appear that this procedure would be very costly in time of personnel. Typing facilities are not available at most public libraiies and it is necessary to write in longhand the data required often, on checking the information later, it may be necessary to make another trip to the library to supplement the data first obtained. Consequently, it has been the aim to have available in The Texas Co. libraries not only all the main abstract journals, American, British, French, and German, reference works, and encyclopedias, but also practically all texts relating to the particular fields of interest of The Texas Co. In the main libraiy prints of reels 1 through 305 of the Technical Oil Mission reports and a collection of reports of the Publication Board, BIOS, FIAT, etc., are retained in loose-leaf binders. 

A Glossary of Some German Names for Chemical Products was prepared for CIOS (55). This indicates composition or systematic chemical nomenclature. Some entries refer to CIOS and other series reports where the chemical product named is mentioned. Trade name glossaries included in the Master Index of Reports on Chemical Industry in Germany are also available separately (45). The numerical index to reels 1-119 of the Technical Oil Mission (24) contains a lubricating oil glossary. The I. G. Farbenindustrie index cards (27) include trade name literature. Review reports such as are cited (24, 25, 28, 29) and similar survey reports are sources of information on trade names. 

Sternberg, W. M., Preliminary Classified Index of Technical Oil Mission Reels 1-259,... 

Mines, from the U.S. Technical Oil Mission, and from other sources. ... 

Translations of German Documents on the Development of Iron Catalysts for the Fischer-Tropsch Process, Part 1, by Max Leva, U. S. Bureau of Mines Special Report (1946). Translations of Docs. PG-21559-NID, PG-21581-NID, PG-21574-NID, PG-21577-NID, all from Technical Oil Mission Reel 101. 

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