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 corner of the laboratory where chemical tests are made at the Plastics Department's Technical Service laboratory at Chestnut Run. The new DuPont laboratory is now in operation.
Aerial view of the Deepwater Point, New Jersey plant which consists of about 800 buildings in which approximately 6500 people are employed. In the Deepwater Point area are manufactured neoprene, a chloroprene rubber; synthetic camphor; dyestuffs;...
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...
This building , used as a laboratory at the Repauno dynamite plant, Gibbstown, New Jersey was forerunner of DuPont Company's first formal research unit, the Eastern Laboratory, established in 1902 at Gibbstown. Lammot du Pont, father of the three...
The Explosives Department's Eastern Laboratory (foreground) at Gibbstown, New Jersey. The winding road in the center of the photograph running to the dock divides the laboratory from the Repauno Works. This pioneer research laboratory, one of the...
Written caption: "Interior of Repauno Works laboratory at Gibbstown, New Jersey, established around 1880. This is one of the early laboratories in which explosives research was carried out for what is now the DuPont Co. The research in the Works...
Aerial view. Typed caption: "The Explosives Department's Eastern Laboratory (foreground) at Gibbstown, NJ. The winding road in the center of the photograph running to the dock divides the laboratory from the Repauno Works. This pioneer research...
DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina plant is one of two plants where Dacron polyester fiber is made. The other is located at Old Hickory Tennessee. Bothe Kinston and Old Hickory plants maintain a textile laboratory. The view here shows part of the...
DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina plant is one of two plants where Dacron polyester fiber is made. The other is located at Old Hickory Tennessee. Bothe Kinston and Old Hickory plants maintain a textile laboratory. The view here shows part of the...
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...
Laboratory apparatus of various types is used by DuPont researchers in their studies. Here, in a Plastics Department laboratory at the Experimental Station, a scientist tests a catalyst he created for inducing reactions to produce high polymers,...
Electroplated test samples being examined in the Sodium Products Service Laboratory at DuPont's Electrochemicals Department plant in Niagara Falls, New York. The laboratory is used for electroplating research and for technical service to the...
This photograph illustrates the wide variety of training and skill necessary to carry out research efficiently on the large scale on which it is conducted at DuPont's Experimental Station. Many specialists, in addition to research chemists,...
Shooting laboratory blast on DuPont's Eastern Laboratory testing ground at Gibbstown, New Jersey enables technicians to study results with high speed motion picture camera, which takes pictures up to 8000 frames a second. Laboratory tests like this...
Potbellied stove for winter heating was a feature of this early DuPont plant control laboratory at the company's Repauno dynamite plant in Gibbstown, New Jersey. It contrasts sharply with today's ultra-modern laboratory facilities.
Burnside Laboratory at Carney's Point, New Jersey. Here the DuPont Company does research on smokeless powder and other propellants, ballistics, nitro-cellulose and other cellulose products, as well as on polymer intermediates.
Pioneering Research Laboratory of the DuPont Companys Textile Fibers Department, where initial investigations are conducted on man-made textile fibers. The laboratory is a part of the $30,000,000 expansion of DuPont's Experimental Station which was...
Mrs. Ira Hume Carothers and Mr. Carothers of Des Moines, Iowa, parents of the late Dr. Wallace Hume Carothers, inventor of nylon, chat with B.M. May (center), general manger of the Rayon Department, E.I. DuPont Nemours & Company, at the dedication...
Photograph of plaque honoring the late Dr. Wallace Hume Carothers, unveiled at the dedication of The Carothers Research Laboratory on September 17, 1946. The laboratory is situated at the DuPont Experimental Station, near Wilmington, Delaware,...
