1933 - Technology

Technology

Inventor Kate Gleason dies at her native Rochester, N.Y., January 9 at age 67, leaving an estate of $1.4 million.

Dow Chemical starts building a plant at Long Beach, Calif, to produce iodine from oil field brine. Dow will break the British-Chilean nitrate monopoly in iodine and bring the price down from $4.50 per pound to 81ยข.