To guide the research chemist in his activities it is essential that the products he obtains be checked for their conformity to specifications. Also, new compounds are prepared which must be identified. The analytical chemist is a specialist,...
This photograph illustrates the wide variety of training and skill necessary to carry out research efficiently on the large scale on which it is conducted at DuPont's Experimental Station. Many specialists, in addition to research chemists,...
The papers of Paul Arthur are comprised of material collected by Dr. Arthur’s sister, Dorothy Arthur from 1967 through the 1988. The Collection is divided into two series. The first contains press releases from the DuPont Company and includes...
Fabric dyes for printing designs on piece goods are tested on a small press at DuPont's Technical Laboratory Chambers Works. Here a chemist is shown inking the press with color paste. Each batch of dye made at the Chambers Works must agree with the...
Chemist in a DuPont Company laboratory measures out a pound of pure silicon as produced in the company's small pilot unit. DuPont is continuing research on the production process but since the company is not in the electronics business, the...
Chemist in a DuPont Company laboratory measures out a pound of pure silicon as produced in the company's small pilot unit. DuPont is continuing research on the production process but since the company is not in the electronics business, the...
A DuPont chemist at work in the laboratory. The petrographic microscope at his right is used to identify organic compounds. Insets show (1) the crystal of an organic compound (2) the interference figure or optic picture created by passing polarized...
Dr. Joseph Balthis, research chemist, is carrying out distillation at a controlled research pressure in a hood in one of the two man laboratories of the Chemical department's lab shown to visitors to the dedication of the addition to the DuPont...
Since beginning in 1927, DuPont's program of fundamental research has proved helpful in laying the foundation for applied research along many new lines. The chemist in this picture at the company's Experimental Station is watching an organic...
Dr. Joseph H. Balthis, research chemist, is carrying out distillation at a controlled reduced pressure in hood in one of the two main laboratories of the DuPont Company's Experimental Station.
A chemist observes progress of a distillation operation at the Experimental Station. When cooled with liquid air, many gases are converted to liquids which are then distilled in this low temperature still, like water or other ordinary liquids.
Within the last few years, the chemist has developed a new kind of soap. Starting with ordinary vegetable and animal oils, the chemist now makes fatty alcohols which, in combination with sulfuric acid and other chemicals gives a new class of...
New soap perfume sin the making. In the chemists laboratory, a miniature soap machine turns out hundreds of cakes of soap. Perfume to be tested is incorporated in the soap while it is mixed in the plodder. Cast in a die, the soap cakes are...
Table of Contents: Urethane foam for furniture; You and your toothbrush; Moscow after dark; Project 4120: make a new synthetic rubber; The railroads' history makers; Calypso explores an undersea canyon; The chemist's electronic servants; Traveling...
Table of Contents: What the Chemist is Doing for our Industries; Science of Quarrying Rock with Explosives; The Arlington Plant; Making Dynamite; Destroying Dynamite; The Finishing and Care of Hardwood Floors; Make Friends with a Rifle; Leather...
Table of Contents: The chemist's aid to agriculture; Beautiful lamps for the home; What sells the modern car; Fabrikoid in France; The weather never varies; From storm king to Manitou; High spots in dye production; Why cigars should be properly...
Table of Contents: Cotton and the dye chemist; How DuPont PX cloth was developed; Emily Post, hostess to 13, 000,000 women; Better chairs for youngsters; Roads to geyserland; An institution older than the nation; Dulux in the sky; Dynamiting ice...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Paint industry;
Table of Contents: Nylon plastic finds new uses; Tags that talk; Harnessing the rainbow; Crossing the pecos; Distringuished chemist honored; Neoprene takes the coke; The artful cleaner, then and now; Introducing the slurry; Did you know; What's new.
Work in the Main Power House of the Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant in Dearborn, MI apparently is conducive to a ripe old age. Here are the more elderly of the staff of the power house, lined up in front of the latest of the three huge 110,000...
If you told the average man in the street that these chess men and poker chips were once just a couple of household chemicals he would probably laugh and tell you to stop kidding him. But carbolic acid (phenol to the chemist) and formaldehyde can...
