Collection guide; Consumer products; Industrial products and design; Manufacturing and related sectors
As a scientist Carter Litchfield (1932-2007) studied and specialized in edible
fats. During the mid- to late 1950s Litchfield worked in the Edible Research Section of
the Chemical Division of Proctor & Gamble. His work there centered on...
In this unit benzol and related products are obtained from recovered light oils. Light oils are separated from coke oven gas in the towers in the background.
Text from front: "Uncle Sam supplying the world with Berry Bros. Hard Oil Finish." Text from back: "Berry Brothers Varnish Manufacturers, Detroit, Mich...For sale by J.D. Orcutt, dealer in Drugs, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, etc., Painted Post, N.Y."
J.E. Crandall, Dealer in Lumber, Paints, Oils, Lath, Sash, Doors, Coal, Tile, Cement, All kinds of building materials. Billhead includes illustration of Heath & Milligan Mfg. Co.'s Prepared Paint.
Text from front: "Packer's Florida Water Soap: A combination of the purest and most delicate detersive ingredients with refined Vegetable Oils and chemically pure Glycerine; the whole transfused with the refreshing and delightsome qualities and...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Metallurgical industry; Clothing industry; Plastics industry; Nylon;
Table of Contents: Metals for a new age; Inside look at outerwear; From Fairfield to outer space and back; For the car in your future; New formula for freshman chemistry; Visit with June; Tankers to Texas; A new and better bleach; Give me mountain...
Table of Contents: Mobilizing American Business; Hydrochloric Acid -- Muriatic Acid; Double Tracking the Southern Railway; Fractionation of Tar and Tar Oils; The Food Administration; Increasing Oil Yield From Old Wells; The Biological Survey; The...
Table of Contents: From vegetable oils; A labor-saving hint from motorists; For pleasant living; News of a new blue; There's no mystery about a diesal; The eyes eat first; Nineteen miles through coal; Garments of DuPont rayon; Thick and thin lead...
The First Automobile Show-People weren't even sure that the horseless carriage was "here to stay" when the first automobile show was held at the Old Madison Square Garden, New York, in 1900. Manufacturers of that period had different ideas as to...
Because of its strength and resistance to oils and greases, new conveyor belting made of Mylar polyester film as been adopted by many bakeries. Here the new belting carries freshly cooked doughnuts to powered sugar bin at the General Baking Company...
A laboratory technician inspects a sheet of Viton fluoroelastomer. As shipped by DuPont from its plant at Deepwater Point, New Jersey, Viton is a translucent, light color gum. This new special purpose rubber is a result of DuPont's long activity in...
Viton' fluoroelastomer, DuPont's new fluorine-based elastomer is milled into sheets, the final step in its manufacture at the Deepwater Point, New Jersey plant. At this stage, it is a translucent, light colored gum which rubber companies compound...
Baby carriages roll smoothly and quietly with wheel bearings of Zytel nylon resin which require no lubrication. This is one of the first nylon bearing applications to go into commercial production, although the material is now widely used for...
This is DuPont's new neoprene plant at Montague, Michigan which went into production in October, 1956. It is the company's second largest neoprene operation in this country, the other plant being located in Louisville, Kentucky. Neoprene is a...
