*Savannah Pulp and Paper Laboratory (now Herty Advanced Materials Development Center), founded by Charles H. Herty Sr. in 1932
*Commercialization of the Hall-Héroult process for producing aluminum by the Pittsburgh Reduction Company in 1888
*John William Draper and the founding of the American Chemical Society in 1876
*The National Bureau of Standards (now National Institute of Standards and Technology), founded in 1901