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...
Picture above is a section of the adiponitrile storage area at the Niagara Falls plant of DuPont's Electrochemicals Department. During the manufacture of this nylon intermediate, furan, tetrahydrofuran and 1,4 dichlorobutane are produced. These...
Acrylonitrile, a chemical intermediate used in the manufacture of Orlon acrylic fiber, is made in this Explosives Department production unit at the DuPont Company's Beaumont, Texas plant. Reflecting the latest developments of chemical technology,...
Blading Intermediate Turbine Spindle of 104,000 K.W. Steam Turbine, General Unit, being built for Crawford Avenue Station of Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago.
Modern research takes time, manpower and money. Tools take a large share of the investment. The Semi-works unit shown here illustrates the complex, costly equipment needed in a modern industrial research laboratory. This reactor was a vital tool in...
From a control room 100 feet long at the Belle, West Virginia plant of the DuPont Company's Ammonia Department, operators handle production equipment for the entire nitrile building from a central location. Operator Howard Lowe here checks a gauge...
Caprolactam, an intermediate chemical for type 6 nylon fiber and plastics, is being manufactured in this new plant at Beaumont, Texas. The DuPont Company's first caprolactam plant is the results of a longer term research effort by its Explosives...
A 100 foot control room at DuPont's Belle Works, near Charleston, West Virginia, enables operators to handle production equipment of nylon intermediate from central location. The product must be processed under speeds, temperatures, pressures and...
Pipelines and towering adiponitrile process units at Niagara Falls Plant dramatize the $25,000,000 which has been invested over the past two decades in new processes, new buildings and plant alterations. Adiponitrile is a nylon intermediate made...
Pipelines and towering adiponitrile process units at Niagara Falls Plant dramatize the $25,000,000 which has been invested over the past two decades in new processes, new buildings and plant alterations. Adiponitrile is a nylon intermediate made...
DuPont's Victoria, Texas plant was completed in 1951 as part of a five year, $550 million program of plant expansion to provide facilities which were deferred during World War II. Operated by the Polychemicals Department, the plant provides a...
Package development is part of the activities of the DuPont Film Department's sales development and technical service laboratory at Chestnut Run, near Wilmington, Delaware. In photo, package specialist is re-designing old package (top right) to...
Victoria, Texas plant operated by the Plastics Department of the DuPont Company produces an important intermediate chemical used in making nylon fibers and plastics. The open structure of this processing building is typical of the new look in the...
Built on a 1,000 acre site three miles south of Orange, Texas, the Sabine River Works employs more than 2,500 mean and women, was part of DuPont's postwar expansion. In addition to methanol, the plant makes intermediate chemicals for nylon and...
Intermediate inspection of the substrate for DuPont's Corfam poromeric shoe upper material is one of the many quality control points in the manufacturing process at Old Hickory, Tennessee. At this stage, the substrate is inspected visually for...
The catalytic reaction being observed by this DuPont scientist is part of the Electrochemicals Department's long range research program. One dramatic result of this type of research was a new process for making vinyl acetate, a polymer intermediate...
