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...
Soldiers; Military training; Military organizations
List of men recommended to become noncommissioned officers and orders for company drill on 1 November 1862. This item regards Company B (Lammot du Pont's company), 5th Delaware Volunteer Infantry.
Letter from Colonel Henry S. McComb, commander of the 5th Delaware Volunteer Infantry, confirming the men Lammot du Pont recommended to become noncommissioned officers in Company B.
Letter from Colonel Henry S. McComb, commander of the 5th Delaware Volunteer Infantry, confirming the men Lammot du Pont recommended to become noncommissioned officers in Company B.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Restaurants; Pest control; Textile industry; Plastics industry; Sailing; Bedspreads; Golf;
Table of Contents: A menu for the future; No way up; Revolutionary sails; Sleeping in style; Casting a winner; Calling all cars; So little trees can become big trees; Dreaming in color; Breathing easy at GM; News in brief.
Table of Contents: Chemistry and American security; Stepping through the centuries; World's largest car ferry; Mood music; Nitramon S; Short journeys to DuPont plants; What's new; Chemical gems become boudoir accessories; Modern plastics...
Prohibition; Political organizations; Alcoholic beverages;
Letter introducing Raskob to a new organization dedicated to repealing the 18th Amendment, which would become the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Includes questionnaire.
Before bauxite can become the metal aluminum, the alumina must be removed from it. A step in the wet chemical process for obtaining alumina (aluminum oxide) is shown here. Impurities are being removed from the solution containing the bauxite. In...
Glass block in bands surrounding the monitors and in shafts above the canopies of stainless steel at each entrance to the new Standard Register Company press shop in Dayton, OH have become the new architectural symbol of a business built on holes....
Import autos are one of Dundalk Marine Terminals major commodities. Because of the vastness of the facility and the expertise of the local auto handlers, Dundalk terminal has become the largest import auto centers in the U.S., where it has handled...
US Coast Guard. Under the category of "Assistance to Life and Property" come the mercy activities for which the Service has become most reknowned. Coast Guard planes, cutters, shore stations, and other units are always ready at an instant's notice...
A controversy is developing in the ranks of TWA, The Lindbergh Line over the question are passengers in the Douglas airliners going to consume so much more food while flying that the cost of feeding them is going to show a sharp advance? The...
Based on the recommendations of Henry Alexander and Archibald McCall, the firms agrees to become an agent for E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company according to the terms the firm outlines. The firm requests that powder be sent to Henry Bennett at...
Discusses terms for a gunpowder order. Also refers to a letter from DuPont that mentions keeping supplies of gunpowder on hand for the United States in the event they become participants in the Crimean War.
Winston reports that he thinks San Francisco will become a lucrative market for gunpowder. He attaches a list of references for his business in New Orleans.
Kemble discusses the terms of his agreement to become an agent for the DuPont Company in New York, particularly as they relate to sharing the market with Anthony Girard.
Kemble discusses the terms of his agreement to become an agent for the DuPont Company in New York, particularly as they relate to sharing the market with Anthony Girard.
Kemble reports that he has sent two kegs of powder to the Haitian government free of charge so that officials there can become familiar with the product.
From the Puddling furnace to the squeezer. The ball of near molten steel mixed with slag is ready to be dropped into the sqeezer where most of the slag will be removed. The remaining slag forms thin strands in the semi steel to become wrought iron
