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...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Gunpowder;
Table of Contents: Confidence in the future is warranted; You see Pyroxylin finishes every day; Spanning America's Rhine; The Berg wardrobecase; World's record smashed; That new wood product, Cellophane; Cracking a frozen wheel with dynamite;...
Table of Contents: Signs are favorable for good business; Problems and Pyroxylin solutions; Railroad at the top of the world; Yes sir, it's a Nesser; DuPont exhibit at the Brazilian International Centennial Exposition won the Grande Premio;...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: DuPont oval powder; A New Pyralin product; DuPont Fabrikoid went, too; Cellophane, the super wrap; Dollars to matches; Pyroxylin finish helps clean house; And now Pyralin chessmen; Hello, Ed. Maloney; Making the Detroit River...
Table of Contents: Sketching the background; Sweep of the years; Resume of black powder history; Old black powder days; High spots of DuPont high explosives history; Forty-five years ago; Importance of chemistry in DuPont industries; DuPont...
Cutting machine, run by hand in the old days, cut the teeth of two combs at a time from a blank of pyroxylin plastic in Leominster, Massachusetts plant of the DuPont Company. Combs were then broken apart by hand.
This is the newest type of multiple testing machine which examines all finished pyroxylin coated fabrics for resistance to abrasion at the Newburg, New York plant.
Testing for color fastness with heat and ultra violet radiation are made by the fade-o-meter on pyroxylin coated fabrics at the Newburgh, New York plant. Seventy-two hours of the exposure in the fade-o-meter are equivalent to about two years of...
Base mixing machine in which the pyroxylin is broken up and reduced to fluid form by the addition of solvents in the process of manufacturing finishes at one of the plants of DuPont.
Male and female workers in Fabrikoid factory.Written caption: "Fabrikoid Company, Newburgh, NY; acquired by Du Pont in 1910, makers of pyroxylin coated textiles."
