New automatic controls for basic research tools permit DuPont operator to turn twelve stills at once instead of the customary four or five. This equipment is in the Plastic Department laboratory.
New automatic controls for basic research tools permit DuPont operator to run 12 stills at once instead of the customary four or five. This equipment is in the Polychemicals Department laboratory at DuPont's Experimental Station.
High pressure lab of DuPont's Chemical Department investigates chemical reactions at high pressures, often equivalent to that exerted by a column of water six miles high. Operator shown here checks remote controls at the DuPont Company's...
Text from back of image: 'The 'Untin' Bowler, giant Sikorsky biplane, which will attempt to fly from Chicago to Berlin via Iceland and Greenland, hopped off from North Beach, Queens, NY on June 29th for Chicago. Robert Gast and Parker Cramer were...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Textile industry; Nylon; Pest control; Agriculture; Paint industry; Plastics industry; Rayon;
Table of Contents: Textiles and DuPont; Nylon's other life; New controls for pests; Down on the (tank) farm; Once the color was fugitive; The growing family of plastics; Rayon, rayon everywhere; Bag of tricks; How x-ray screens have been improved;...
In the center is the director, Mortimer Stewart, who controls each of the three cameras. By a twist of a knob he brings any of the 3 cameras into the circuit. At the left is Izotta Jewel before one camera (camera in this case refers to the unit...
General view of the docks at the Gary Works of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, largest US steel subsidiary at Gary, Indiana. Shows the hulett un-loaders in operation. The operator sits in a cab just above the grab bucket and controls the...
Text from image: "To the Fireman: The Man With The Shovel controls the wise use of Coal. The Country needs his skill to prevent waste of fuel reqired to keep us warm and to turn the wheels of industry that shall command Victory."
Dr. Paul W. Morgan of DuPont's Textile Fibers Pioneering Research Laboratory demonstrates the making of nylon, instantaneously, at room temperature, without any apparatus other than a drinking glass, a small jar or beaker. Practical commercial...
One of the ingenious instrument panels watching over manufacture of nylon yarn in the DuPont Company's plants. Precision is maintained by controls which record every activity. Here lights, chimes and varied colored lines traced on charts record the...
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...
Other Graphic Arts Materials-Cronar, 20x20 Klimsch Autovertical Camera, Rotofilm, Contact Printing Area
Typical of the process cameras used in DuPont's graphic arts laboratory at Parlin, New Jersey is the 20x20 Klimsch Autovertical with automatic controls. It is one of four such cameras of different makes use by laboratory personnel in experimental...
Molten polymer enters one end of this 300 foot long casting and stretching machine and emerges as a continuous sheet of Cronar polyester film base for medical x-ray film at DuPont's new Brevard, North Carolina plant. On its way through, the film...
An operator adjusts the flow of molten liquid polymer as it is extruded through a lost into a rotating casting wheel. On its way through, the film base is stretched longitudinally and laterally to about 10 times its original size, inspected and...
At the DuPont Electrochemicals Department ceramic color plant, a high temperature furnace, used for calcining ceramic pigments, is frequently checked by an operator using a portable optical pyrometer at the burner openings in the furnace wall. All...
Automatic controls for treatment of wastes at DuPonts Memphis TN plant insure that effluent is made harmless before it is discharged into nearby stream. Waste treatment area includes two large eight hour retention basins and a smaller one hour...
Waste from manufacturing operations at DuPonts Memphis, TN plant receives special treatment before it is finally discharged into nearby stream, Building in background houses automatic controls. Pipes carry chlorine, caustic and steam, which are...
Cord tension is meticulously checked prior to application of adhesive which further increases tenacity in $96,000 hot stretching unit. Operation is one of many controls of tension in processing tire cord. Equipment is part of facilities for study...
