Hendrick requests information about their battery. He intends to purchase an electric automobile, possibly a Columbia Surrey. Hendrick requires a battery of sufficient capacity to run a surrey 150 miles with one charge on good country roads such...
Table of Contents: We serve the motor industry; The New Yorker, a great hotel; What shall we do with this mountain of glass; More progress in boudoir decoration; Air-minded luggage; The role of universities in game conservation; Give me a clean...
Mrs. Ruth Haig with two bullfrogs that went to market. The only problem that stands between the domestic producer of frogs and enormous profits is the production of frogs in sufficient numbers. Until some of the problems of production have been...
Out of an inexhaustible source of raw material- coal, air and water- chemists in recent years have been producing new and vitally important products for modern life. Among these are textiles, dyes, antifreeze solutions, perfume bases and plastics....
A compacted billet of TD Nickel, DuPont's new high temperature alloy, is hoisted into a hydrogen sintering furnace at the company's Metals Center in Baltimore. The billet is heated to 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit, which raises the density of the new...
Its open framework lending a deceptive air of simplicity to a complicated chemical process, this tower with huge storage tanks and shipping cylinders of various sizes in the foreground represents the heart of DuPont's new multimillion dollar...
Small scale plants called 'semi-works' like this one at the DuPont Company's Experimental Station are vital tools in scaling new processes from test tube to full plant size. The semi-works is a standard step in research to prove out laboratory...
The syrupy viscose used to make cellophane is hardened into film in a bath of sulfuric acid. While there is sufficient sulfuric acid made in this country supply every person with a quart a day, the layman probably never makes a purchase of the acid...
Hendrick complains that the boiler does not make steam sufficient to run the carriage satisfactorily. The vehicle does not go up hills faster than the electric. Hendrick questions whether another feeder on the boiler would help it to produce more...
Typed caption on back: "The Chambers Works at Deepwater Point, New Jersey, shown here under construction in 1919, marked DuPont's entrance into the field of organic chemistry. To help overcome dependence on foreign sources of dyes and related...
note with image: "Passenger cars receive their gleaming exterior finish at the General Motors Fremont Assembly Plant in paint-spray booths of the latest design. the large volume of fresh air supplied to each booth -- sufficient for more than 300...
Caption text on photo: "Out of an inexhaustible source of raw materials – coal, air and water – chemists in recent years have been producing new and vitally important products for modern life. Among these are textiles, dyes, antifreeze...
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,...
