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...
The records consist of photocopies of miscellaneous documents of the Empire Steel and Iron Company, the originals of which are in the possession of the National Canal Museum at Easton, Pa. Most of them seem to have come from the Mount Hope site....
Written on back: "7 Anna Roobyan CIV. 10 Takohee Kushbuloodyan XCVII." Detail: "TAKOHEE KUSHBOOLOODIAN is a little girl who was nine years old in 1922. She has lost her parents in the recent troubles, but was rescued by Miss Salmond and taken...
Table of Contents: Everybody wins; A knack for niches; Nascar's top finish; Once, twice, three times a winner; An alliance with nature; Cookware goes heavy metal; Sea of songs; Spinning new hope; the latest in labels; News in brief.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Automobile industry; Textile industry; Cotton industry;
Table of Contents: The pulse of business; What Duco means to the automobile owner; Widening the century-old Chesapeake and Delaware Canal; After the washout in Wyoming; Intensive effort launched to make America once more a nation of riflemen;...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Textile industry; Nylon; Pest control; Agriculture; Paint industry; Plastics industry; Rayon;
Table of Contents: Textiles and DuPont; Nylon's other life; New controls for pests; Down on the (tank) farm; Once the color was fugitive; The growing family of plastics; Rayon, rayon everywhere; Bag of tricks; How x-ray screens have been improved;...
Above is pictured the beautiful 13th century cathedral at Rheims which was terribly damaged by the German bombs and long range guns during the World War and which is now being restored to its former state of beauty. A donation of $1,000,000 was...
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...
Amusement, Sports etc. The Perfumed Wrestler (8) set of 10. Once in actions George reverts to normal wrestling technique and makes an effort to twist his opponent into a new shape.
Close up of south face of Brookhaven Reactor-Through these holes in the south face of the Brookhaven reactor are introduced tons of pure uranium metal. Once in the graphite moderator of the reactor proper, uranium atoms fission, or spilt, in a...
Laser Beams-The promise of fusion power holds a great potential to meet the energy demands of the future. Architect and engineering studies began during 1973 on a $20 million High Energy Laser Fusion Facility at the Department of Energy's Lawrence...
If you told the average man in the street that these chess men and poker chips were once just a couple of household chemicals he would probably laugh and tell you to stop kidding him. But carbolic acid (phenol to the chemist) and formaldehyde can...
Nylon will provide for future feminine neckwear, as it has for stockings, a new combination of flattery and practicality. These box pleated organdy frills need no ironing after laundering, which insures retention of a new look. Elaborate neckwear...
The DuPont site at Old Hickory, Tennessee reflects the complexity of the many new products now being made on this location replacing rayon and cellophane which were once manufactured here. The aerial view show the new plants for Corfam poromeric...
A woman riveter in a Consolidated Vultee aircraft plant receives a supply of once cold aluminum alloy rivets, wrapped in cellophane envelopes, similar to those developed by DuPont for frozen foods. The film keeps the rivets cold two or three times...
New automatic controls for basic research tools permit DuPont operator to turn twelve stills at once instead of the customary four or five. This equipment is in the Plastic Department laboratory.
Aerial view of DuPont's pigments plant at new Johnsonville, Tennessee. The 1,500 acre site on Kentucky Lake was acquired in 1952 and the plant was formally opened in September, 1959. Land once covered with brush and scrub is now attractively...
