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...
Correspondence; Dwellings; Real estate business; Correspondence;
Letter from Montpelier owner, Louis F. Detrick to his realtors, Alex Yearley & Son declaring his resolve not to lower his price on the estate without hearing a reasonable counter-offer and further defending his asking price by noting the recent...
A controversy is developing in the ranks of TWA, The Lindbergh Line over the question are passengers in the Douglas airliners going to consume so much more food while flying that the cost of feeding them is going to show a sharp advance? The...
The first commercial production of titanium metal resulted, in large part, from DuPont research. The metal has excellent corrosion resistance and strength-weight ratio. The world's first small scale commercial production of the ductile titanium...
This young lady is holding 537 eggs-in cellophane shells. Dehydration removed the water. Compression by a new process removed most of the air, so that the nourishment value has been squeezed into a compact package of fourteen one pound blocks, each...
Work soles made of DuPont's synthetic rubber, neoprene are popular in many industries, but especially so among roofers. They are surefooted, abrasion resistant and long wearing. Neoprene crepe is much more resistant to oxidation than natural rubber...
Hendrick wants to know if the company is now making a surrey. Hendrick mentions a friend who has a White automobile. The friend is trying to devise a regulator so that he will not have to hand-pump the water as much (the only fault he finds with...
Hendrick feels that the engine in his automobile in out of balance as it shakes the carriage very much. Hendrick is exasperated by the problems he is having with the automobile and its parts. He writes, when it is not one thing it is another. ...
Hendrick wants to exchange the present boiler and burner for a 15 or 20 horse power boiler. He believes the the 90 pounds of air pressure needed to work with the kerosene boiler the company sent him would be too much for the tank.
Lydia Pinkhams Compound was the mother of all patent medicines. Her Vegetable Compound might be the most popular patent medicine of all time. It is still sold today, although in a much modified form. This concoction promised to be a savior for all...
Letter from William du Pont to his secretary, Charles K. Lennig regarding the purchase of the Montpelier Estate. He does not wish to close off negotiations but believes the property lacks too much to be worth more than the $50 per acre he is...
Letter to his father informing him of his new residence in Boston while he attends MIT. He also asks for more money on account of having to spend so much for schoolbooks and other supplies. William also mentions that he is concerned for his eyes...
Aim ray at absenteeism: "Industrial Ultraviolet Ray Solarium", aimed at reducing absenteeism in war plants, is official name for the merry-go-round system of artificial sunlight irradiation (above) introduced by the Hanovia Chemical & Mfg. Co.,...
The Air Force H-12, new multi-purpose, multi-passenger helicopter designed and produced by Bell Aircraft Corporation, flies over the Horseshoe (Canadian) cataract at Niagara Falls. This is one of the rare clear views of the entire brink of the...
General Electric is on the leading edge of a computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) revolution that promises to make the company vastly more productive. One facet of this is computer graphics, a technology that frees the design engineer...
Russell Patterson painting an advertising illustration in his studio in the Heckscher Building, NY. Mr. Patterson does big display ads which appear in monthly periodicals, giving much of his time to automobile ads. He is one of the foremost display...
Glass container designers of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company's packaging research division at Toledo, OH work with less eyestrain in this new all glass windowless structure where soft, diffused daylight is transmitted through translucent but not...
Speculating in stocks is a universal weakness and the French do it as much, proportionately, as Americans, Germans, British.
Here is a striking new photo of the crowd you may see on the steps of the Paris Bourse any day of exciting trading.
Dipper of a surface coal mining shovel dwarfs a mechanic, left, as it lifts 140 cubic yards-about 210 tons-of earth and rock. Once every minute the shovel removes this much overburden, about three railroad carloads, from above a coal seam near...
