Raw sulfur being loaded intro trucks for delivery to the burners at the Grasselli plant of E.I. DuPont Nemours and Company in Philadelphia POA. These piles of sulfur run as much 1,000 tons.
Assemblies of glassware of special and complex design are frequently necessary for the analysis of chemical compounds in the development of new and improved products. Here a chemist and laboratory assistant at the Experimental Station set up...
Assemblies of flasks, bubbler absorption tubes and enclosed lamps make possible the burning of liquid samples and the collection of the gases formed. Here a chemist and laboratory assistant at the Experimental Station operate apparatus for...
Sulfuric acid is a basic chemical used by industry on a large scale. The fertilizer, petroleum, textile, iron and steel, paint and pigment, chemical, explosives and other industries use millions of tons of it every year. The DuPont Company has been...
Sulfuric acid, made from sulfur, is most versatile industrial chemical and the most widely used. Piles of sulfur shown at DuPonts East Chicago, Indiana plant are just mole hills in comparison to the 15 million tons made last year by DuPont and...
Table of Contents: A new chapter in poultry nutrition; Modern sulfur mining; New fabrics of DuPont rayon; Fabrikoid; Modern refrigerator finishing; For the American home; Sanitation, public health, and packaging.
Oldest built 1862, converted to anthracite 1867, rebuilt various dates. Cone shaped ore rosters to remove sulfur from Cornwall ore to left. Berkshire Iron Co. Date of photo unknown.
This newly completed 30 million pound plant at Beaumont, Texas was built by DuPont solely for the manufacture of a sulfur vulcanizable ethylene propylene rubber. Its capacity can be extended when demand justifies it. Because of the need for close...
Modern American dye industry was born in this handful of buildings at Deepwater, New Jersey on July 17, 1917 when DuPont processed its first successful charge of sulfur black. Acute shortage of dyes during World War I precipitated the company's...
Assemblies of flasks, bubbler absorption tubes and enclosed lamps make possible the burning of liquid samples and the collection of the gases formed. Here a chemist and laboratory assistants at the Experimental Station operate apparatus for...
At wheel mill all ingredients-charcoal, sulfur and sodium nitrate-are grouped together by pair of wheels weighing 10 tons. For safety, the operator at Belin Works of DuPont Company leaves the building after charging the tub, as above.
Charcoal and sulfur, basic raw materials, are stored seperately at Belin Works near Moosic, Pennsylvania then pushe dint hese narrow gauge cars to mill for pulverizing. The plant furnishes all DuPont;s balck powder customers, ranging from...
Two great-great grandsons of Eleuthere Irenee du Pont look at the marker dedicated July 18, the DuPont Company's 150th anniversary, on Brandywine Creek, near Wilmington, Delaware. The du Ponts, two of the youngest members of the family now in the...
