Dimensionally stable Cronar polyester graphic arts films were developed in the DuPont Photo Products Department research laboratory in Parlin, New Jersey. Cronar films are used for a multitude of application in the graphic arts industry. Cronaflex...
A DuPont chemist uses electrochemical measurements to determine the course of an organic chemical reaction. Studies like this are part of a continuing program of fundamental research aimed at finding better polymers which may be used to make...
At the DuPont Company's Experimental Station near Wilmington, Delaware a Film Department chemist exposes a new experimental film to extreme conditions of temperature and ultraviolet radiation. The study is part of the company's fundamental research...
The DuPont Film Department's sales development and technical service laboratory in Chestnut Run is one of the most modern and complete of its kind. Built at a cost of $1 million, this laboratory provides technical assistance to customers and...
Artist's conception of a solar still which may some day permit tapping of oceans or brackish inland sources for additional supplies of fresh water. Salt water flows from pipe in foreground into shallow troughs covered with plastic film canopies,...
Caption text on photo: "Artist's conception of a solar still which may some day permit tapping of oceans or brackish inland sources for additional supplies of fresh water. Salt water flows from pipe in foreground into shallow troughs covered with...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Metallurgical industry;
Table of Contents: What of the future; Burial of the benevolence; Fit to be tied; For bookbinders only; Mighty methanol; Color for Christmas; Enter cimarron; Titanium, the pinch eases; New motion picture films; How DuPont is organized and managed...
Table of Contents: Sails for all sailors; Wrap-up on a soap overwrap; Countdown at climax; First year at the fair; Prizewinning power sweep; Walls that clean in a whisk; New skin for hot bottles; New films in the family; Colors for corrugated...
Table of Contents: On the right track; There's a new line at Sears; A reel improvment; The powerhouse within; Anniversary splash; Health care newcomer; These films have the right stuff; A chilling assignment; A gripping success; News in brief.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Furniture industry; Agriculture;
Table of Contents: Letter from customer; Those popular bleached blondes; Pioneering in potash; Want a softer toothbrush; Packaging films report for duty; The gusher called Spindletop; Revolution in electronics; Fifth column of the forage land; This...
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...
Printed roll of motion picture film being inspected at the DuPont Company's plant at Parlin, New Jersey. DuPont entered the photographic field in 1912 when a modest experimental research program was started to develop plastic sheeting as a support...
At DuPont's Photo Products laboratory, at Parlin, New Jersey this girl poses to test an experimental film's ability to match flesh tones. At this laboratory, research is also conducted on motion picture, x-ray, portrait and photolithographic films;...
DuPont's Pack industrial x-ray film is used in x-raying welds of huge cylinders in plant of Herrick L. Johnston, Inc. in Columbus, Ohio, manufacturer of ground handling equipment for major rocket and missile programs. The resulting radiographs are...
Medical x-ray film is made in wide mill rolls at DuPont's new plant at Brevard, North Carolina. It is then slit into desired widths under safe light conditions on machine like this. A single mill roll will contain over a mile of film, slit rolls...
In the DuPont Film Department's sales development and technical service laboratory at Chesnut Run, near Wilmington, Delaware, standard refrigerated display cases are used to observe the in-use performance of cellophane and other films in the...
Partial view of the DuPont Film Department's sales development and technical service laboratory at Chestnut Run near Wilmington, Delaware. Shows some of the equipment used in testing cellophane and other films.
DuPont's operations at Richmond, Virginia involve the manufacture of both film for packaging and textile fibers. The principal film manufacturing facilities are at the right. These units make cellophane, polyethylene and acetate films. The fiber...
