The papers of Paul Arthur are comprised of material collected by Dr. Arthur’s sister, Dorothy Arthur from 1967 through the 1988. The Collection is divided into two series. The first contains press releases from the DuPont Company and includes...
Text from back of image: "Major S. M. Strong, flight surgeon of the Medical Corps attached to Mitchel Field at Garden City L.I., had a remarkable experience a few days ago while on a flight to test the recording barograph and get the 'ceiling' of...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Building materials; Textile industry; Clothing industry;
Table of Contents: Latest silicon successes; New horizons in housing; Supermarket shopper; Tough new packaging film; Free-flowing dense nitrocellulose; Tots in Orlon; Service in shipping; Innovators with Delrin; Recording the heartbeat of the X-15;...
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...
Table of Contents: Recording data under water; Formula for happy plants; Technology on snow-covered slopes; Protecting the national pastime; Reversing a two-wheeled image; Drops of water, grains of salt; The bachelor father and the shock absorber;...
Table of Contents: It's a brand new ball game; And the band plays on; Fabric fix-up for failing highways; Pillow talk; A profitable exhange; A vintage harvest; Clarifying a water problem; Reliable reds for the road; Christmas in July; Recording the...
At the DuPont Electrochemicals Department ceramic color plant, a high temperature furnace, used for calcining ceramic pigments, is frequently checked by an operator using a portable optical pyrometer at the burner openings in the furnace wall. All...
A stroboscopic camera traces the movements of a man who stacks 50 pound bags. The amount of energy needed to this job is registered on the recording device. Such tests point the way to improvements in job techniques which will reduce fatigue and...
While the subject pedals an electrically 'loaded' bike in the DuPont Company's Haskell Lab, various recording equipment in adjoining room gives record of all weather room conditions and also registers subject's reaction.
Flex recording meter showing the durability of PX Cloth, a modern bookbinding, at the former DuPont Exhibition at the New York Museum of Science and Industry, Rockefeller Center, New York City. The machine opened and closed the bock 3,600 times an...
Collection guide; Research and invention; Women entrepreneurs and leaders
Collection guide for Jackson Hunsicker (Memo Mate) papers. The papers document the process of invention and patent application for a personal recording
device. The collection consists of the legal correspondence of Ms. Hunsicker’s...
Text from back of image: "Uncle Sam's Air Service completed elaborate plans for recording the phenomena fo the sun's eclipse Saturday. Twleve planes and about fifty men with special cameras and instruments will take part in the attempt. The above...
On back: "Colorful reminders of the early years of the Twentieth Century are the 'morning glory' horn of this ancient Victor Talking Machine Company phonograph and the broad-brimmed 'sailor' hat and checked, long-skirted jacket of the model....
Copy of painting of the American Eagle, which is the ship that brought members of the du Pont family to America in 1800. Typed caption with image: "COPY - December 21, 1946. From records of the former Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation,...
