Talk:Battelle Memorial Institute

Battelle operation of US Military's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah

Battelle is also now doing top secret work at the US Military's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, a facility which I believe Battelle now operates. I have already dug up one source, and I will get a couple more and add something to the article.WacoJacko (talk) 14:17, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Rewrite needed

Much of the material in the article reads too much like a PR document. I suspect it has come directly off their web page. It should be re-written to be less biased in tone and to read more like an encylopedia article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.50.76 (talk) 11:00, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

The article also needs a discussion of the lawsuit against Battelle for failing to honor the terms of the endowment, which was to support orphans. That legal battle took decades -- and note there is not a word in the article about what Battelle does with its profits. It was supposed to support the orphans of Franklin County, Ohio. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.9.209.34 (talk) 15:51, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

No re-write is needed. Regarding the above remarks:

1. An article that "reads too much like a PR document" can result from "creative" writing or (as appears to be the case here) from good writing.
2. Battelle was not established to benefit orphans but to prompt education and research in science, according to the article about it's founder, Gordon Battelle.
3. ROI that came from developing the xerographic process was impossible to plan for -- the reward exceeded any reasonable expection. When a particular candidate for office sought election, he also sought a platform. Part of that platform served as encouragement to Battelle to fund the Columbus Convention Center in 1974. The following is quoted from this URL: http://www.columbusconventions.com/.

"In 1974, Battelle Memorial Institute contributed $36.5 million and established the Battelle Commons Company to develop a convention facility in downtown Columbus. Construction began in February 1978, with doors to the Ohio Center, and its premier venue, Battelle Hall, opening on September 10, 1980."

Kernel.package (talk) 18:48, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Manhattan Project

I've seen a newspaper article from a Columbus paper honoring those who contributed to the Manhattan Project. Either an employee was named or Battelle (as their employer) was among them. I'm trying to locate a copy of the article. Reference to the project should probably be included in the article. Kernel.package (talk) 18:56, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Xerox & Haloid

In the Technological and medical advances section it states "Work led to the first commercial xerographic equipment, and to the formation of Xerox corporation."

As keen bee seen in the wiki on Xerox, The Haloid Photographic Company was the company founded in 1906 that evolved into Xerox. I believe that Battelle made a deal with Carlson for the basic, but not practical xerox technology, advanced it to practicality and then sold the rights to Haloid which ultimately was renamed as Xerox.

thus both the Battelle wiki and the Xerox wiki should reflect the same basic facts.

The following discussion from the Chester Carlson wiki is probably a better account of the Battelle/Haloid collaboration:

"By the fall of 1945, Battelle agreed to act as Carlson's agent for his patents, pay for further research, and develop the idea. Battelle tried to interest major printing and photography companies, like Eastman Kodak and Harris-Seybold, to license the idea, but to no avail.

The commercial breakthrough came when John Dessauer, chief of research at the Haloid Company, read an article about Carlson's invention. Haloid, a manufacturer of photographic paper, was looking for a way out of the shadow of its Rochester, New York, neighbor, Eastman Kodak. Through previous acquisitions, Haloid was already in the duplicating-machine business; Dessauer thought that electrophotography might allow Haloid to expand into a new field that Kodak did not dominate.

In December 1946, Battelle, Carlson, and Haloid signed the first agreement to license electrophotography for a commercial product. The $10,000 contract—representing ten percent of Haloid's total earnings from 1945—granted a nonexclusive right to make electophotography-based copying machines intended to make no more than twenty copies of an original. Both sides were tentative; Battelle was concerned by Haloid's relatively small size, and Haloid had concerns about electrophotography's viability.

During this period, Battelle conducted most of the basic research into electrophotography, while Haloid concentrated on trying to make a commercial product out of the results."

Michael Marcus — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjmarcus (talk • contribs) 20:08, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

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As memory serves, there was a lengthy court battle over whether Battelle was following the guidelines in Gordon Battelle's will. The fight culminated in a decision circa 1970 in which Battelle agreed to act as a charity; supposedly it had not done so previously. It would take some digging in the archives (morgue) of the Columbus newspapers or in the Franklin County Courthouse to dig up the details.75.0.232.90 (talk) 21:14, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

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