While both Title and Practice Acts focus on the health, safety and welfare of the public, Practice Acts require that interior design services be provided by a licensed design professional. They are the most restrictive type of occupational regulation in that they prohibit unlicensed people from providing interior design services.
They ordered equipment from Europe, and on April 19, 1937, they formed Perkin-Elmer as a partnership. Perkin and Elmer started their optical design and consulting business in a small Manhattan office, but within a year they were producing optical components in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Already by 1890 Elmer was the Grand Opera Houseâs first manager as well as the first vice president of the new Iowa State Savings Bank. He was a county supervisor while the courthouse was built in 1891-93, a national bank examiner in 1893-95, and mayor of Fairfield in 1902-03, overseeing our first street-paving.