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...
Table of Contents: New medium in tailored men's wear; Instant imaging for the printer; Start with a fine finish; Safety's new line of defense; Giving the world a lift; Polishing off pollutants; Six thousant feet under the alps; The midget music...
Framed in a giant metal lathe at Ford Motor Companys Rouge plant, Alex Tiebs, a skilled tool and die maker, carefully scrapes bronze insert ends of the lathes jaws so that the large but delicate part to be worked will not be marred. The huge...
Yarn beaming at DuPont's nylon manufacturing plant at Seaford, Delaware. In this operation the yarn is transferred from individual pirms to the big beam to enable the fabric maker to handle the yarn more efficiently.
Yarn beaming at DuPont's nylon manufacturing plant at Seaford, Delaware. In this operation the yarn is transferred from individual pirms to the big beam to enable the fabric maker to handle the yarn more efficiently.
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....
A skilled dye maker at DuPont's Organic Chemicals Department's Chambers Works at Deepwater Point, New Jersey is shown with a lab technician checking dye shades.
The thousands of labels used to identify DuPont products show the diversity of the goods the company makes. For the first century Du Pont was primarily a maker of explosives. The past 50 years have seen the company broaden its base to become 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,...
DuPont explosive rivets are used by a maker of custom-built delivery trucks to attach aluminum exterior panels to structural members of vehicle in a blind fastening operation. One man, unaided, sets the rivers, applying heat with a DuPont riveting...
Hendrick is trying to discover the maker of an automobile which was featured in an endurance test on Long Island. The vehicle was equipped with a compound condensing engine which made the 100 mile trip without a stop and lost only 6 gallons of...
Printed caption: "On Bedford Street in Georgetown, just off the public square, is an old, shingled house. Once it was one of the most important buildings in Sussex County, for it was built as the County Court House in 1791 and used as such for...
