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...
In 1880, the first charge of nitroglycerine was produced at the Repauno dynamite pant in a building similar in architecture and construction to the one above-as waste acid building. This structure was still in operation until 1954 when the company...
Chemical industry; Dynamite; Explosives; Factories;
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.
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...
Ordnance industry; Business enterprises; Meetings;
Meeting Minutes of the Repauno Chemcial Company from March 3, 1886 which includes letterhead noting William du Pont's position as President of the Company.
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...
Collection guide for Repauno Works Historical File. This collection consists of material collected for the 100th anniversary of the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Repauno Works.
For safety in handling dynamite, wooden machinery and tools even to the shovel, must be used. Here an operator is filling a powder jitney with the explosives in the mix house at the Repauno, New Jersey plant of the DuPont Company.
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...
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...
Typed caption: "This is an Atlas mixing machine, used in the manufacture of dynamite at Repauno c. 1895. The box in the foreground contains inert ingredients which are place in the trough. Nitroglycerin us added from the containers shown on the...
"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...
Table of Contents: Age of speed; New Callao Port works; New decortive art in the bindery ; Moving a million yards of earth; Shoes, sans stables, nails or stitches; Shades in toyland; Frosted foods and Cellophane; Thirty-four years of progress at...
