I was sent to attend the first drill of the Womens Independent Rifle Club, of Cincinnati, the members of which are training themselves to guard our homes against the enemy if we go away to war. Go said the editor and find out what sort of a...
Labels and advertisements for E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company gunpowder. Brands and companies include Eagle Powder; DuPont's Diamond Grain Gunpowder; Hagley Mills; Louisiana Rifle; California Rifle; Virginia Rifle; Andrew Fountain and Company...
Admiral Du Pont sending via the steamer Massachusetts, two hundred-pounder rifle bolts (shells) and one forty-pounder recovered at Ft. Pulaskis, fired by sailors from the Wabash. He is sending them to Lammot for safe keeping and so not to alarm his...
Making rifle barrels that will shoot true and straight requires mathematical exactness. These expert workmen in an American factory that is turning out rifles and cartridges for our fighting men are making these rifle barrels accurately straight...
Gunpowder labels, advertisements, and advertising cards for various gunpowder companies in the United States and Great Britain. Companies and brands include: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company; Hazard Powder Company; Wapwallopen Mills; H.A....
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Firearms industry; Defense industry;
Table of Contents: Perfecting Organiations for Home Defense; The Development of Transportation; Increasing Cotton Production; Alum and its Uses; Leather Substitutes for the Marine; Making White Pigments; Keep up the Farm Buildings; Charles H....
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Explosives; Dynamite; Firearms industry; Defense industry;
Table of Contents: Building the Ocean Bridges; Limestone for Everyone; Nitrate of Sda -- A Life of Necessity; Why Better Roads Immediately; The Brandywine Mill; Painted Furniture; Care of the Rifle; Destructive Disposition of the Crow; Shoot Life...
Table of Contents: Agriculture and the War; An Idle Army of 500,000,000; Camphor; The Shotgun in Modern Warfare; Apply Industrial Paints; Making Nitroglycerin; Making Black Blasting Powder; Smokeless Rifle Powders.
Table of Contents: What the Chemist is Doing for our Industries; Science of Quarrying Rock with Explosives; The Arlington Plant; Making Dynamite; Destroying Dynamite; The Finishing and Care of Hardwood Floors; Make Friends with a Rifle; Leather...
Table of Contents: Dyes development, a national need; DuPont straight dynamite is now practically freeze-proof; Why dealers should handle one complete, specialized paint line; Fabrikoid scores 100%; Multiplying leather; Demolished without damage;...
Table of Contents: Signs are favorable for good business; Problems and Pyroxylin solutions; Railroad at the top of the world; Yes sir, it's a Nesser; DuPont exhibit at the Brazilian International Centennial Exposition won the Grande Premio;...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Firearms; Golf; Plastics industry; Textile industry; Pest control; Paint industry;
Table of Contents: The Kentucky rifle; Artists with a camera; Less worryin' on the greens; 50 years of tire progress; Chemistry's squeeze play; What do you know about air conditioning; Stop that fall; It says right here in Webster; Fashions in...
Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry; Government contracts;
Henry Dearborn requests that the company remanufacture rifle powder for the U.S. War Department using U.S. government saltpeter in the company's possession.
McCall has engaged a vessel to transport a powder order from New Castle to Norfolk. McCall also requests company to send him additional rifle powder to supply Tench Coxe, who sends powder to the back country and will help establish company...
McCall sends company tally of gunpowder remaining in the Philadelphia magazine. He has engaged schooner Speedwell to transport powder from New Castle to Norfolk and requests company send him additioanl rifle powder to supply Tench Coxe.
Correspondence; Gunpowder; Government contracts; Ordnance industry;
Mason reports that he has a need for rifle powder and asks the Du Pont Company on what terms they could manufacture the gunpowder. He informs the Du Pont Company that he must also ask other manufacturers for their contract terms.
