In this laboratory, the Experimental station near Wilmington, Delaware, experiments are carried out on the molding characteristics of plastic materials. Such experiments are carried out on new types of products to determine whether or not they have...
Control broad at DuPont's plastic plant near Parkersburg, West Virginia. This automatic device allows the operator to keep close control over complicated manufacturing processes and thus make better plastic more efficiently. The plant makes Teflon...
New all plastic and nylon filter unit used in disposable blood and plasma infusion equipment by Cutter Laboratories. Picture shows unit disassembled. Starting at top, two part of plastic cylinder which houses filter; next, plastic brace which forms...
Testing pigmented plastics at DuPont's new Pigments Sales Service Laboratory. Here operator loads plastic resin into an extruder, while extruded plastic material is cooled in water bath at lower left. In this operation pigment in the plastic is...
New Plastic Insulator.
Caption text on photo: "A laboratory technician places a piece of 'Teflon' tetrafluoroethylene resin, a DuPont industrial plastic, in an instrument which measures the plastic's dielectric constant and power factor at 3000...
In this laboratory, the Experimental station near Wilmington, Delaware, experiments are carried out on the molding characteristics of plastic materials. Such experiments are carried out on new types of products to determine whether or not they have...
From a boiling bath of hot sulfuric acid, a laboratory technician lifts two rods of plastic. One has charred and deteriorated. The other-a rod of DuPont's new Teflon tetrafluoroethylene resin-is not affected at all by the highly corrosive hot acid....
A laboratory technician places a piece of Teflon tetrafluoroethylene resin, a DuPont industrial plastic, in an instrument which measures the plastic's dielectric constant and power factor at 3000 megacycles. Because its dielectric loss factor is...
Artist's conception of a solar still which may some day permit tapping of oceans or brackish inland sources for additional supplies of fresh water. Salt water flows from pipe in foreground into shallow troughs covered with plastic film canopies,...
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...
Caption text on photo: "In this laboratory at the Experimental Station of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, near Wilmington, Delaware, experiments are carried out on the molding characteristics of plastic materials. Such experiments are carried...
Caption text on photo: "Artist's conception of a solar still which may some day permit tapping of oceans or brackish inland sources for additional supplies of fresh water. Salt water flows from pipe in foreground into shallow troughs covered with...
Caption text on photo: "Control board at DuPont's plastics plant near Parkersburg, W. Va. This automatic device allows the operator to keep close control over complicated manufacturing processes and thus make better plastics more efficiently. The...
Caption text on photo: "Vertical spindle wood shapers or routers give excellent results for both contour and step routing 'Lucite' methyl methcrylate resin. On vertical spindle shapers multiple blade cutters may be used. Square routing or shaping...
"Teflon" A Good Electrical Insulator.
Caption text on photo: "A circular piece of 'Teflon' tetrafluoroethylene resin, a DuPont industrial plastic, placed between tinfoil electrodes, is being measured for its dielectric constant and power factor...
Dielectric Test of Plastic.
Caption text on photo: "A laboratory technician places a disc of 'Teflon' tetrafluoroethylene resin, a DuPont industrial plastic, in a high-voltage testing set to measure its dielectric strength. The transformer oil...
Chemically Inert Plastic.
Caption text on photo: "From a boiling bath of hot sulfuric acid, a laboratory technician lifts two rods of plastic. One has charred and deteriorated. The other – a rod of DuPont's 'Teflon' tetrafluoroethylene resin...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Nylon; Rope industry; Textile industry;
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The Sabine River Works of the DuPont Company, built on a 1,000 acre tract three miles southwest of Orange, employs 1,700 men and women in the manufacture of chemical intermediates for nylon as well as methanol (synthetic wood alcohol) and plastic...
Night and day, the Sabine River Works of the DuPont Company, built on a 1,000 acre tract three miles southwest of Orange, employs 1,700 men and women in the manufacture of chemical intermediates for nylon as well as methanol (synthetic wood...
