A guide to primary material at the Hagley Museum and Library. For access to the contents of this collection contact Hagley at research@hagley.org or 302-654-2800.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite;
Table of Contents: Conservation; Excavating Lake Washington Canal; Dependability; Smokeless Bananas; Ballistite Unhurt by Three Months' Immersion; Practical Explosives Efficiency; Two or More Electric Blasting Caps in a Bore Hole; Depth of Charges...
Campaigns & battles; Naval warfare; Naval prints; Government vessels; Military officers; Sheet music covers; Music
Sheet music commemorating the U.S. Navy's successful attacks on Forts Walker and Beauregard at Port Royal, South Carolina, 7 November 1861. This attack was carried out by the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron under the command of Commodore Samuel...
For photographing the human voice and reproducing it, not as a picture but as the actual sound of the voice itself, a new device known as the Pallo-Photo-Phone has been perfected by Charles A. Hoxie of the General Electric Company. It is regarded...
Oddities in the news: A robin in Newark, Ohio feathers its nest with threads of pure glass and in Toledo demonstration reveals that a single pane of tempered plate glass bends but does not break under the weight of a three-ton elephant. An now,...
Text from back of image: "The ZR-1, new American queen of the air, made her first successful flight at Lakehurst, NJ last evening, Sept. 4th. Photo shows its crew getting the airship ready for its flight outside its hangar at Lakehurst, NJ."
Text from back of image: "Photos shows Juan de la Cierva, pilot and inventor, in plane, and H. F. Pitcairn, before hop. Successful tests flights were made at Pitcairn Field, Philadelphia, by Juan de la Cierva, with his auto-giro airplane. With...
Table of Contents: Cycle of business; Sixth national chemical exposition; Finishing school at Newburgh; Dyestuff intermediates; A successful toy industry; Service in handling the paint inquiry; Setting the store stage; Add years of use to trucks...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Textile industry; Paint industry; Fashion industry; Pest control;
Table of Contents: The need for leadership; Modern package design; Brushing up on bristle problems; Dyestuffs at the fair; Clean clothes mark the successful man; The richest hill on earth; What's new; DuPont research and pest control; Fabrics for...
Guide book for tournament chairmen of the Delaware Lawn Tennis Association outlining the responsibilites of chairmen for ensuring a successful annual DLTA tournament.
The First Automobile Show-People weren't even sure that the horseless carriage was "here to stay" when the first automobile show was held at the Old Madison Square Garden, New York, in 1900. Manufacturers of that period had different ideas as to...
Introduced in 1935, the Lincoln Zephyr was a product of the new styling department organized by Edsel Ford. Its sleek design, highlighted by a wedge shaped grille, headlights that blended into the fenders and virtual elimination of running boards,...
This is the picture of the Farmers Saving Bank at Zearing, Iowa in 1900. The people are G.J. Pollock, his wife and their cashier, Miss Anna Fry in the foreground. It was an individual bank owned and operated by G.J. Pollock. He was a great horse...
Modern research takes time, manpower and money. Tools take a large share of the investment. The Semi-works unit shown here illustrates the complex, costly equipment needed in a modern industrial research laboratory. This reactor was a vital tool in...
Dr. Wallace H. Carothers, shown here with neoprene, first commercially successful synthetic rubber, came to the DuPont Company the year after it launched its program of fundamental research in 1927. Dr. Carothers, who directed the work in organic...
Dye Works-Chambers Works, Deepwater Point, New Jersey
Modern American dye industry was born in this handful of buildings at Deepwater, New Jersey on July 17, 1917 when DuPont processed its first successful charge of sulfur black. Acute shortage of dyes during World War I precipitated the company's...
This photograph shows a camphor flaker at the camphor plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Deepwater Point NJ. At this plant camphor is manufactured for medical as well as industrial use. This latter is known as technical camphor. Technical...
