Table of Contents: Aviation and DuPont; Flying finishes; Death to rats; DuPont airborne plastics; Workin' on the railroad; Nylon takes to the air; At last, that new car; Cellophane in white; U.P. coal, helped open the west; What makes a good...
Ford surprised the auto industry by bringing out a low priced car with a V8 engine whose engine block was cast in one piece. At prices ranging from $460 to $650, the swift and stylish V8 gave Ford a performance reputation that helped carry it...
Studying effects of chemicals on laboratory animals
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...
Shown at his laboratory bench is a member of the staff of the Eastern Laboratory of the DuPont Company's Explosives Department at Gibbstown, New Jersey. Established in 1902, this was the first of DuPonts research laboratories and is believed to...
A supervisor of the DuPont Company's Explosives Department prepares to set off charge of 16,000 pounds of DuPont 60% gelatin dynamite which helped blast a trench for the Big Inch oil pipe line in the solid rock bottom of the Susquehanna River near...
A statue of Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, son of Victor du Pont, Consul. He was in the U.S. Navy his entire life, and helped develop plans to establish the U.S. Naval Academy in 1850.
Handwritten on front: "Merry Merry Christmas with best wishes for the new year from all the George du Ponts." Handwritten on back: "You have no idea how much of your kindnesses to my sister Marion Newbold helped and cheered her when she was so...
