Periodicals; Chemical industry; War work; Defense industry; Plastics industry;
Table of Contents: High-pressure synthesis; Introducing polythene; The American eagle; Mucis by the yard; Please say ah-ah-ah-h; Photolithography and the war; Up from ten to sixty; What's in a name; Freon fights overseas; What's new.
Some perfumes are compounded from as many as sixty ingredients. The number of items in a compounding laboratory many reach into thousands. The young woman shown here is not only an expert on which of these items can be used successfully for...
This scene shows pipe for the Big Inch oil line being unloaded beside the Susquehanna River at Marietta, Pennsylvania. About sixty thousand pounds of DuPont 60% gelatin dynamite were used to blast a trench 2,000 feet long and eight feet deep in the...
A bias cross section of Cordura rayon sailcloth as used in the quadrilateral jib of Americas 1937 cup defender, Ranger, magnified sixty times y the microscope.
Collection guide; du Pont Family; Professional organizations
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.
Route 741, one mile east of Strasburg; Date built: c.1882; On back: East Strausberg at train time is a scene not duplicated anywhere in America today. Here the sixty year old train with is open platform wooden coaches pulls into the wonderful world...
