Metal degreasing at DuPont's Electrochemicals Sales Service Laboratory at Chestnut Run. Metal soiled with lubricants and dirt picked up during fabrication enter one end of degreaser and emerges from the other thoroughly clean, dry and ready for...
The E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company minute books document an important era in the history of the company from just before the turn of the twentieth century through the 1930s. The DuPont Company in this time went through many changes in structure...
Correspondence in which Smith discusses gardens and the health of family. The letter also discusses Smith's discussion with former captains of the South Atlantic Squadron about Admiral DuPont's misuse by the Navy. Captains Robertson and Cromwell...
Adiponitrile area at DuPont's Victoria plant, ten miles south of Victoria, Texas. Butadiene and natural gas are among the raw materials used in the plant in making adiponitrile, a chemical employed at an early stage of nylon manufacture. This plant...
Lobby of DuPont's Plastics Technical Service Laboratory in Chestnut Run showing one of the displays featuring uses of plastic products. Illumination in this area is supplied through the ceiling panels of extruded Lucite acrylic resin. Floor tiles...
Typed caption: "Pigment is mixed with paint vehicle at DuPont's Pigments Sales Service Laboratory at Chestnut Run. Here operator feeds mixture into three-roll mill, which grinds the pigment and disperses it uniformly through the paint vehicle. The...
Chemical industry; Factories; Rayon; Textile industry;
Article from the Thursday, October 13, 1949 issue of the Waynesboro News-Virginian newspaper documenting the history of DuPont's Waynesboro,Virginia rayon plant. Includes bird's-eye photographs of the plant from 1929 and 1949. Item 18 of 23 from...
DuPont's Textile Fibers Department's Orlon acrylic fiber manufacturing facilities are shown in this aerial view of the May plant located at Camden , South Carolina. The plant went into commercial operation in May of 1952.
Emory F. Ridlon, plant managers, points out features of the DuPont's new plant to members of newly appointed plant staff. Left to right are: Lloyd E. Horning, accounting superintendant, William C. Eddy Jr., manufacturing superintendent, Mr. Ridlon;...
This is a nylon intermediates unit at DuPont's Sabine River Works where modern high pressure techniques convert products of Texas' oil industry into chemicals used by other DuPont plants in the manufacture of nylon yarn and plastics. In the...
Control board at DuPont's plastics plant near Parkersburg, West Virginia. This automatic device allows the operator to keep close control over complicated manufacturing processes and thus make better plastics more efficiently. The plant makes...
Control room for Delrin acetal resin at DuPont's Parkersburg, West Virginia plant has scores of dials and gauges on huge panel board. The instruments tell the operator what is going on inside the tanks and toweres elsewhere in the plant. These...
Dry cleaning at DuPont's Electrochemicals Sales Service Laboratory at Chestnut Run. Garments are first cleaned with Perclene perchlorethylene in unit on left; then transferred to recovery unit on the right. Here the last trace of the cleaning...
Mass pigmentation of textile fibers at DuPont's New Pigments Sales Service Laboratory. Here single end spinning machine is used for making viscose rayon pigmented with a new fade resistant 'Monastral' red. In this technique, color is put into the...
Chambers Works of DuPont's Organic Chemicals Department, one of the largest chemical and dyestuffs plant in the Western Hemisphere. Manufacturing facilities, together with three related research laboratories, occupy an area of about 600 acres at...
Operator at DuPont's new silicon plant at Brevard, North Carolina 'picking' silicon needles. This method of inspection helps maintain high purity standards of DuPont silicon. The material, a non metallic element, is used in such devices as...
Oven drying of silicon at DuPont's new plant at Brevard, North Carolina. In this process, silicon needles are dried after a demineralized water wash. The Brevard plant has an annual capacity of 70,000 pounds of silicon a year. Silicon of ultra high...
A graphic demonstration of the high temperature strength of TD nickel, DuPont's new alloy of 98% nickel and 2% thorium. The TD nickel bar reaches red heat, but does not fail at 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit under a load of 6,000 pounds per square inch....
A graphic demonstration of the high temperature strength of TD nickel, DuPont's new alloy of 98% nickel and 2% thorium. The TD nickel bar reaches red heat, but does not fail at 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit under a load of 6,000 pounds per square inch....
An operator prepares to load a tank car of tetraethyl lead at DuPont's Chambers Works. The tank a car is on a siding in the TEL area where the antiknock compound is manufactured. DuPont's Petroleum Chemicals Division markets this product to...
