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...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Neckties; Buildings; Building materials; Road construction; Plastics industry; Dyeing; Postage stamps; Explosives;
Table of Contents: High-rise headquarters for world commerce; Colorful combinations on white blackboards; Practically painless municipal surgery; A time and place for plastics; The go-anywhere, do-anything fleet; Liquid dyes get a stamp of...
Table of Contents: Following chemistry through the average business day; Princess Ileana's private car; Mining Adirondack magnetite; That added touch of charm; Effective game conservation; Rayon in the swim; Antioquia Railway extension to the Cauca...
Harry S, Truman (left) is sworn in as President of the United States by Chief Justice Harlan Stone in the Executive Offices of the White House, Washington DC. April 12, following the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt at Warm Springs GA. Mrs. Truman is...
For photographing the human voice and reproducing it, not as a picture but as the actual sound of the voice itself, a new device known as the Pallo-Photo-Phone has been perfected by Charles A. Hoxie of the General Electric Company. It is regarded...
Typed caption: "Upper Hagley works on the Brandywine were built in 1812. It was at this mill where Alexis I. du Pont, third son of E. I. du Pont de Nemours, was injured on Saturday afternoon, August 22, 1857 which resulted in his death the...
Artificial rubber industry; Chemical industry; Explosives; Factories; Nylon; Paint industry; Plastics industry; Rayon; Research; Textile industry
Booklet documenting the expansion of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company's manufacturing facilities during the post-World War II period. Includes information and images related to the following projects: expansion of the Experimental Station in...
Armco Steel Corporation, Ashland, Kentucky, water clarification plant . Aerial photograph of the plant from the southeast. A booklet was prepaired for the dedication of the new facility from which the following illustrations and photos were...
Aerial view of the Orlon acrylic fiber, acetate yarn and Lycra spandex fiber plants of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Waynesboro, Virginia. The Orlon unit was completed in 1958; Du Pont's acetate plant has been in operation in Waynesboro since...
Using an air hose, a plate maker at Beck Engraving Company, Philadelphia, blows water off a wrap around Dycril printing plate. The plate will be ready, following a short drying time, for wrap around or letterset (modernized dry offset) printing....
Aerial view of the Orlon acrylic fiber, acetate yarn and Lycra spandex fiber plants of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Waynesboro, Virginia. The Orlon unit was completed in 1958; Du Pont's acetate plant has been in operation in Waynesboro since...
The operator is inspecting the film as it emerges from the drying chamber of the coating machine to catch any defect Film is inspected in both transmitted and reflected light. The coated film is wound up on a mandrel which is in the cabinet in...
This diagram shows a typical surface cross section as it might appear, magnified many thousands of times, under an electron microscope. The surface might be that of a fiber, or of a painted wall, or even wall paper. In Line No. 1, rough soil...
Following the base mixing, the dissolved cotton is filtered through a base filter press to remove any remaining impurities, an important part of the process of manufacture of finishes by DuPont.
A section of the continuous conveyor type of dryer used to thoroughly dry the cotton following its purification for use in manufacturing finishes by DuPont.
The weight of animals is a guide to effect of the test materials. The fact that rabbit at DuPont's Haskell Laboratory for Toxicology and Industrial Medicine at Newark, Delaware lost no weight following test helped clear one plastic film for good...
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...
Racks of rayon yarn in cakes pass into huge ovens to dry in temperatures considerably above 100 degrees F., following washing and de-sulfuring plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company.
