The establishment of Brown Company’s Research and Development facility in 1915 had a signifi cant impact on the company’s economic success. By 1919, the Research Department’s scientists had made substantial contributions to the technological advancements of the pulp and paper industry. With a research staff exceeding one hundred, the Brown Company facility was one of the largest in-house industrial research and development organizations in the United States and a novelty in the pulp and paper industry. The department allowed Brown Company to refi ne and improve its paper products, develop new products, and obtain research contracts from the United States Government and from other pulp and papermaking companies. Besides the obvious products, such as newsprint, photographic paper, masking tape, paper towels, and toilet paper, the research department also created items that have “invisible” wood components, such as cellophane, organic fi ller in foods and pharmaceuticals, and Rayon for clothing.


BROWN COMPANY’’S RESEARCH BUILDING


Floorplan, 1941 Suggested alterations to Research Building


Research Building, c. 1930


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