Toothbrush Manufacture (pre-nylon) and Manufacture of Nylon Bristles
Final inspection of bundles of bristles used in the manufacture of toothbrushes at the Leominster Massachusetts plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company. Imperfect bristles are being removed.
Toothbrush Manufacture (pre-nylon) and Manufacture of Nylon Bristles
In the manufacture of toothbrushes by E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Leominster, Massachusetts the bristles are first washed, bleached and sterilized and then carefully examined for possible colored bristles. This scene shows girls picking out...
Toothbrush Manufacture (pre-nylon) and Manufacture of Nylon Bristles
A preliminary step in the manufacture of toothbrushes at the Leominster, Massachusetts plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company. A native Russian in the bristles department washing, bleaching and tying raw Russian bristles into bundles. The DuPont...
Toothbrush Manufacture (pre-nylon) and Manufacture of Nylon Bristles
Bundles of raw bristle, used in the manufacture of toothbrushes, are first washed, bleached and sterilized and then dried thoroughly at the Leominster, Massachusetts plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company. Trays of bundles of bristles are seen...
Toothbrush Manufacture (pre-nylon) and Manufacture of Nylon Bristles
A step in the manufacture of toothbrushes tat the Leominster Massachusetts plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company. Bristles are shown here being separated according to length.
Nerve center of DuPont's Antioch, California plant for manufacture of Freon refrigerants and aerosol propellants is this control room where electronic equipment tells the operator just what's going on at various stages of the manufacture process....
A guide to primary material at the Hagley Museum and Library. For access to the contents of this collection contact Hagley at research@hagley.org or 302-654-2800.
Chicopee MA-Spring is here and hard on its heels is the season for baseball, Americas favorite sport. Already the factories that manufacture baseballs are busily turning out a supply to meet the demand. These photographs, made at the A.G. Spalding...
Production of nylon is a complex art requiring super cleanliness and rigid control of temperatures and pressures. In the manufacture of yarn at the textile fiber plants, the nylon salt solution is first piped into evaporators where much of the...
Production of nylon is a complex art requiring super cleanliness and rigid control of temperatures and pressures. In the manufacture of yarn at the textile fiber plants, the nylon salt solution is first piped into evaporators where much of the...
Production of nylon is a complex art requiring super cleanliness and rigid control of temperatures and pressures. In the manufacture of yarn at the textile fiber plants, the nylon salt solution is first piped into evaporators where much of the...
Production of nylon is a complex art requiring super cleanliness and rigid control of temperatures and pressures. In the manufacture of yarn at the textile fiber plants, the nylon salt solution is first piped into evaporators where much of the...
Production of nylon is a complex art requiring super cleanliness and rigid control of temperatures and pressures. In the manufacture of yarn at the textile fiber plants, the nylon salt solution is first piped into evaporators where much of the...
Aerial view of the Victoria Plant ten miles south of where the DuPont Company uses products of the petroleum industry, chiefly butadiene and natural gas, to manufacture a chemical knows as adiponitrile, employed in the manufacture of nylon....
The DuPont Company's new $10 million plant for manufacture of Mylar polyester film, under construction near Circleville, Ohio is more than 50% completed and is expected to start operations in the latter part of 1954. This will be the first full...
This is a nylon intermediates unit at DuPont's Sabine River Works where modern high pressure techniques convert products of Texas' oil industry into chemicals used by other DuPont plants in the manufacture of nylon yarn and plastics. In the...
This is another view of the manufacture of continuous sheeting of Butacite polyvinyl acetal resin, which is used as interlayer in modern laminated safety glass. As it passes onto a wind up roll, as shown in this picture, its unusual flexibility is...
This newly completed 30 million pound plant at Beaumont, Texas was built by DuPont solely for the manufacture of a sulfur vulcanizable ethylene propylene rubber. Its capacity can be extended when demand justifies it. Because of the need for close...
A roll mill is used to disperse fine ground ceramic color in an oily vehicle. The finished material in this form is used in the stencil or screen process of applying ceramic colors. This is an important step in the manufacture of ceramic colors.
