Typed caption: "Dr. Paul W. Morgan of DuPont's Textile Fibers Pioneering Research Laboratory demonstrates the making of nylon, instantaneously, at room temperature, without any apparatus other than a drinking glass, a small jar or beaker. Dr....
Typed caption: "This reactor was a vital tool in the development of a successful nylon salt process. It cost $25,000. An eight-man construction gang and a six-man operating crew spent two and a half months setting it up. Its operation for a month...
Typed caption:"Can't wait: After waiting for hours to buy nylons after they went on sale post World War II, this young woman couldn't wait to get home to put them on."
From Better Living Magazine, March-April 1950. Machine reads "Miracle Nylons. The new stocking with the blue stripe. Now! extra quality dressy sheers. Long wearing flattering nylon. $1.00. First quality, full fashioned, all DuPont nylon and fully...
Typed caption: "Nylon goes to war. Nylon was taken off the civilian market in 1942 to go into war production. Nearly 39 million yards of fiber were used to make 3,860,000 24-foot parachutes."
First use of nylon: The modest toothbrush bristle was the first use of nylon. By 1945, about 83 percent of all toothbrushes made in the U. S. had nylon bristles. The first was made by Dr. West.
Written caption: "Crowd of shoppers on May 15, 1940. The day the first nylon stockings went on sale nationwide in the U.S. There had only been local sales in Wilmington, Delaware, prior to that date."
Typed caption: "'DuPont has the best leg show at the fair, said a newspaper account of 'Miss Chemistry's' modeling of nylon stockings at the New York World's Fair in 1939. Yard for demonstration stockings came from experimental production."
Text from image: "December 12, 1939, 12:50 P.M.; First nylon filaments (undrawn) of 30 denier 10 filament yarn to be made at the Seaford Nylon Plant. Spinning started approximately 12:50 P.M. December 12 on Position #2, Spinning Machine #1."
Text on photo: "Chemistry plays an ever increasing role in fashion: gowns of rayon, stockings of nylon, plastic jewelry, shoe heels and even hats. The five young ladies above will model these test-tube creations at the DuPont "Wonder World of...
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. External Affairs Dept. photographs;
Text on photo: "Visitors to the DuPont "Wonder World of Chemistry" exhibit at the New York World's Fair are shown how nylon stockings are knitted. The machines are standard hosiery knitting machines. In the background are the devices for seaming...
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. External Affairs Dept. photographs;
