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Bradley Dewey
(23 Aug 1887 - 14 Oct 1974)
American chemical engineer, industrialist and inventor who co-founded the Dewey and Almy Chemical Co. (1919) with Charles Almy. His work included developing gas masks, synthetic rubber, latex sealants for metal can seams and plastic film for packaging.
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Science Quotes by Bradley Dewey (1)
I don't know what your Company is feeling as of today about the work of Dr. Alice Hamilton on benzol [benzene] poisoning. I know that back in the old days some of your boys used to think that she was a plain nuisance and just picking on you for luck. But I have a hunch that as you have learned more about the subject, men like your good self have grown to realize the debt that society owes her for her crusade. I am pretty sure that she has saved the lives of a great many girls in can-making plants and I would hate to think that you didn't agree with me.
— Bradley Dewey
Letter to S. P. Miller, technical director of a company that sold solvents, 9 Feb 1933. Alice Hamilton papers, no. 40, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Quoted in Barbara Sicherman, Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters (1984).
