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...
Typed caption: "Short filaments may be produced by touching molten polymer with a stirring rod, and drawig the rod away. Equipment has been assembled by means of which continuous uniform filaments having a diameter of 0.007 mm or less can easily be...
This view was taken at the nylon plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Martinsville, Virginia. It shows the polymer and spinning building, where the operations of manufacturing nylon yarn begin.
Crude methyl methacrylate polymer, the base for Lucite plastic manufactured by E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company, ready to go into the dryers. The picture was taken at the Company's Belle, West Virginia plant.
Table of Contents: The polymer that breeds new products; Book-learning wasn't enough; Announcing two new auto finishes; King-size coal quarry; What do you know about bread; Chips off the old block; The undercover paint; Putting foams to work; More...
Nylon 66 polymer, the type which was later commercialized, was first synthesized in February, 1935. In one year, more than 50 other nylon polymers were made with a simple glass apparatus like that pictured here. This phase of the work was one step...
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...
Dr. Paul W. Morgan of DuPont's Textile Fibers Pioneering Research Laboratory demonstrates the making of nylon, instantaneously, at room temperature, without any apparatus other than a drinking glass, a small jar or beaker. Practical commercial...
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...
Autoclaves in DuPont nylon plants. In these receptacles the chemical process known as polymerization takes place. In other word, small molecules join together to make large ones and nylon polymer is created.
Autoclaves in DuPont nylon plants. In these receptacles the chemical process known as polymerization takes place. In other word, small molecules join together to make large ones and nylon polymer is created.
This view was taken at the nylon plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Martinsville, Virginia. It shows the polymer and spinning building, where the operations of manufacturing nylon yarn begin.
View of nylon plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Martinsville, Virginia. The powerhouse at the rear toward the left is identified by the two smoke stacks. The tall building adjoining the power house on the right houses the polymer and...
View of nylon plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Martinsville, Virginia. The powerhouse at the rear toward the left is identified by the two smoke stacks. The tall building adjoining the power house on the right houses the polymer and...
View of nylon plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Martinsville, Virginia. The powerhouse at the rear toward the left is identified by the two smoke stacks. The tall building adjoining the power house on the right houses the polymer and...
View of nylon plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Martinsville, Virginia. The powerhouse at the rear toward the left is identified by the two smoke stacks. The tall building adjoining the power house on the right houses the polymer and...
Molten polymer enters one end of this 300 foot long casting and stretching machine and emerges as a continuous sheet of Cronar polyester film base for medical x-ray film at DuPont's new Brevard, North Carolina plant. On its way through, the film...
