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...
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Letter from Harold H. Vignuelle, president of the Terminix pest control company, to Bernard T. Converse regarding the pest control contract for the Delaware Trust Building in Wilimington, Delaware.
A 100 foot control room at DuPont's Belle Works, near Charleston, West Virginia, enables operators to handle production equipment of nylon intermediate from central location. The product must be processed under speeds, temperatures, pressures and...
Air conditioned control room of one of the processes for making nylon intermediates at DuPont's Sabine River Works at Orange, Texas. The dials tell operator what is going on inside the tanks and distillation towers elsewhere in the plant. These...
The instruments in the control room at DuPont's Victoria Texas plant serve both as a reporter and regulator. A meter, for example, controlling the flow of a liquid sends a report to another device set to the required standard. A third instrument...
Control room at DuPont's Victoria, Texas plant has 185 dials and gauges on huge panel board. Just as a living room thermostat controls a heating source in the basement, so this device governs the process, with an operator watching production flow...
A control panel in the viscose manufacturing operation at the DuPont Company's Tecumseh, Kansas cellophane plant. Precise control at every stage of the process is essential to uniformity and high quality of the finished product. In the manufacture...
One of the instrument panels at the DuPont Company's Tecumseh, Kansas cellophane plant, which permits precise control of every step of the manufacture process of viscose, a syrupy liquid which is then converted in the casting process into clear,...
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...
Control room for Delrin acetal resin at DuPont's Parkersburg, West Virginia plant has scores of dials and gauges on huge panel board. The instruments tell the operator what is going on inside the tanks and toweres elsewhere in the plant. These...
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...
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...
