Nobel prize winner Professor Peter Debye of Cornell University, a DuPont consultant, addresses a group of DuPont scientists at the company's Experimental Station. Professor Debye is one of a large number of outstanding university scientists who...
Some idea of how the kickers toe feels to a football is gained in this unique high-speed photograph by Professor Harold E. Edgerton of MIT. Professor Edgerton pioneered in the application of high speed electronic flash photography to the study of...
Table of Contents: the colorful sport of soaring; Gaining a foothold in everything; The ultimate in cleanliness; Railway remedy for tangled traffic; Higher standards in precision recording; Energetic entry in the metals market; Professor Bigelow's...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Model railroads; Plastics industry; Nylon; Furniture industry;
Table of Contents: A way to run a railroad; A thirst for good water; The industry-minded professor; Think THHN; Bavarian design for an olympic drama; Creating the quality cassette; Furnishing the homes of the nation; The sophistication of simple...
Luncheon given by Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Chairman of General Motors, in the Waldorf-Astoria NY for 500 of the nations leading industrialists, business men and publicists. Left to right: Paul Hoffman, President Studebaker Corp.; C.F. Kettering, GM VP;...
Through regular visits to DuPont Company labs some 60 university scientists, acting as consultants, give DuPont chemists the benefit of their broad experience. Shown here, left, is Professor Roger Adams of the University of Illinois.
Collection guide; Consumer products; Industrial products and design; Manufacturing and related sectors
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.
Psychological aspects of color; color in interior decoration; from Cover: "Predicated upon the scientific selection of colors for interior and exterior decoration by Professor A.J. Snow "
Lisa Jacobson, Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, received a grant-in-aid from the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society to work at Hagley on her study, "Fashioning new cultures of drink;...
Lisa Jacobson, Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, received a grant-in-aid from the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society to work at Hagley on her study, "Fashioning new cultures of drink;...
Handwritten on back: "L to R: Rear: Frank Grugan, P.S. du Pont, Henry J. Brown, Henry A. Little, Josiah Penniman, Charles Burr, Prioleaus Ravenel, Jr., John Tracy. Middle: Unknown. Professor Spiers. Richard M. Jones, Unknown, R. Connable?, Geo....
Typed label on back: "Musette (Elizabeth Norman Veasey) tells the fortune of Professor Fresco (Charles Purnell) while the gypsy troops looks on. 'Say, you tell a rotten fortune! How could I be crossing deep water if I missed the boat?'"
Carte de visite from an album possibly assembled by Henry Algernon du Pont. Handwritten caption: "Dr. Hammond, U.S. Army" Hammond served at Surgeon General of the U.S. Army in 1862-63. He tried to implement numerous reforms of military medical...
Photograph of a sketch made by Charles Alexandre LeSueur of the Piazza at Eleutherian Mills. Typed caption on back: "SUBJECT: Sketch by Charles Alexandre LeSueur (1778-1846), French Naturalist and Artist, made in 1822 of the Piazza of...
