I was complaining
here that I was unable to find information about Ernest W. Dean (1888-1959) and David D. Stark (1893-??, but quite dead probably), but now I did found something.
Ind. Eng. Chem.; 1920; 12(5); 486-490.
The article gives a description of the apparatus that made their names famous in chemistry.
The article contains a (lousy) picture of a 4-unit electrically heated Dean-Stark installation that was developped for their Bureau of Mines as well.

You can read in the article that they were already aware of the marketability of their apparatus.

Nowadays Dean-Stark traps are quite expensive when you buy it, so it is a profitable product... Well, all glassware is actually quite expensive.
Relatively unknown names that have the relatively most famous named-laboratory equipment.
3 comments:
how can one find such paper? :)
Scifinder is my friend
I am using the apparatus and looking for the information of inventor to write dean-stark apparatus for chinese wikipedia.Thank you for your answer.
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