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Special 75th Anniversary edition of the Dynam-Item newsletter documenting the history of DuPont's Repauno Works in Gibbstown, NJ . Item 15 of 23 from DuPont Plant Histories scrapbook.
This building , used as a laboratory at the Repauno dynamite plant, Gibbstown, New Jersey was forerunner of DuPont Company's first formal research unit, the Eastern Laboratory, established in 1902 at Gibbstown. Lammot du Pont, father of the three...
Written caption: "Interior of Repauno Works laboratory at Gibbstown, New Jersey, established around 1880. This is one of the early laboratories in which explosives research was carried out for what is now the DuPont Co. The research in the Works...
Ammonia is produced in this area of DuPonts Repauno Plant, Gibbstown NJ. Hydrogen and nitrogen are reacted with a catalyst at high temperatures and pressures in a vessel beneath the superstructure in the center. Towers at left are part of the unit...
The Explosives Department's Eastern Laboratory (foreground) at Gibbstown, New Jersey. The winding road in the center of the photograph running to the dock divides the laboratory from the Repauno Works. This pioneer research laboratory, one of the...
New organic research building at the Eastern Laboratory of the DuPont Company at Gibbstown, New Jersey increases facilities for studies in the field of organic chemistry. Aim of the work is to develop new processes and products.
Aerial view. Typed caption: "The Explosives Department's Eastern Laboratory (foreground) at Gibbstown, NJ. The winding road in the center of the photograph running to the dock divides the laboratory from the Repauno Works. This pioneer research...
"A chemical test at the DuPont Company's Eastern Laboratory, Gibbstown, N.J., determines moisture content in dynamite ingredients. Here a chemist boils a sample with carbon tetrachloride and measures the amount of water."
"Forerunner of Eastern Laboratory." Written caption: "This building . . . was the forerunner of the DuPont Company's first formal research unit, the Eastern Laboratory, established in 1902 at Gibbstown. Lammot du Pont established the Repauno Works...
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Excerpt from The Indicator, a newsletter published by the New York and New Jersey sections of the American Chemical Society. Explores the history of DuPont's New Jersey facilities and their contributions to the defense industry. Includes a two-page...
This glass blower at DuPont's Eastern Lab in Gibbstown, New Jersey depends on fire, fueled with oxygen and gas, to make lab glassware. The flam on his Bunsen burner can be regulated from needle point to 1.5 inches.
A chemical test at the DuPont Company's Eastern Laboratory in Gibbstown New Jersey determines moisture content in dynamite ingredients. Here a chemist boils a sample with carbon tetrachloride and measures the amount of water. At Eastern Laboratory,...
Shown at his laboratory bench is a member of the staff of the Eastern Laboratory of the DuPont Company's Explosives Department at Gibbstown, New Jersey. Established in 1902, this was the first of DuPonts research laboratories and is believed to...
Shooting laboratory blast on DuPont's Eastern Laboratory testing ground at Gibbstown, New Jersey enables technicians to study results with high speed motion picture camera, which takes pictures up to 8000 frames a second. Laboratory tests like this...
Potbellied stove for winter heating was a feature of this early DuPont plant control laboratory at the company's Repauno dynamite plant in Gibbstown, New Jersey. It contrasts sharply with today's ultra-modern laboratory facilities.
The energy of an explosive is commonly measured by shooting a definite amount in a ballistic mortar, a heavy swinging cannon, expelling a close fitting projectile into a sand pile, and observing how much swing is imparted to at the mortar by the...
