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.
These 61 men and women, and the files, machines and other equipment that surround them, represent the force required to handle the DuPont Company's annual tax bill. In 1952, total taxes and re-negotiation for DuPont amounted to $395 million, more...
For the first time in almost four years, new passenger cars emerged from Studebaker assembly lines, today. The company had been ready to produce automobiles for 13 weeks, but a labor dispute in the plant of a major parts supplier held up...
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...
The Carothers Research Laboratory at the DuPont Company's Experimental Station near Wilmington, Delaware. One of the Textile Fibers Departments four research laboratories in this area, it is here where work is done on nylon and Dacron polyester...
A physicist in DuPont's Central Research Department measures the magnetic properties of new class of antimonides discovered in a fundamental research program- chromium manganese antimonides, a new material with unique on and off magnetic...
Spread out in the foreground of this aerial view is DuPont’s Chesnut Run Research center. Eight operating departments of the company now have sales services laboratories at his location. The laboratories are staffed with more than 1,700...
Manufacturing Process of Dynamite including historic methods
Aluminum covered conveyors snake across landscape, adding another weird touch to the Explosives Departments dynamite plant near Martinsburg, West Virginia. By eliminating old style powder buggies, conveyors reduce handling and speed the manufacture.
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
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.
Collection guide; Manufacturing and related sectors
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.