Composed of eleven compact and connected units the IBM Electronic Data Processing Machines comprise the first calculator of comparable capacity to be produced in quantity. This new calculator uses all three of the most advanced electronic storage...
Artillery (Troops); Forts & fortifications; Military officers
Reichard, a Captain in Battery M, 3rd Pennsylvania Artillery, asks Lammot du Pont's help in getting his unit transferred out of Fort Delaware, which he calls a "horrid Post!" Reichard also mentions a visit with Henry du Pont.
Artillery (Troops); Forts & fortifications; Military officers
Copy of du Pont's reply to a letter from Reichard, asking for du Pont's help in having his unit (Battery M, 3rd Pennsylvania Artillery) transferred out of Fort Delaware. Du Pont offers his help and advises Reichard of ways he can apply for a...
Modern research takes time, manpower and money. Tools take a large share of the investment. The Semi-works unit shown here illustrates the complex, costly equipment needed in a modern industrial research laboratory. This reactor was a vital tool in...
The DuPont Company's new May Plant at Camden, South Carolina for the manufacture of Orlon acrylic fiber. About 20 acres of an 800 acre plot have been utilized for this unit which will produced Orlon in the form of continuous multifilament yarn. To...
New all plastic and nylon filter unit used in disposable blood and plasma infusion equipment by Cutter Laboratories. Picture shows unit disassembled. Starting at top, two part of plastic cylinder which houses filter; next, plastic brace which forms...
Sulfuric acid unit at the East Chicago, Indiana Works of the DuPont Company's Industrial and Biochemicals Department is the world's largest, capable of turning out more than a trainload of acid a week. This unit was brought into commercial...
Night view of the acid recovery unit at the DuPont Company's acetate plant in Waynesboro, Virginia. The above unit, which was installed during the expansion program following WWII, improved the efficiency of the plant and reduced waste.
Collection guide for Wharton School Industrial Research Unit records. The collection is comprised of surveys, notes, interviews, and background materials
for some studies that were done by the Industrial Research Unit during the 1970s and
1980s.
Written on back of image: "Experimental crimpers, filament, large size. Built 1-2, 1952. Photographed March 17, 1952. These units have a common drive, 1/3 H.P. motor. Left Unit: rolls 4 1/2" diameter x 1/4" face; saddle shown is for internal work...
An operator dumps a bag of nylon waste into the hopper of a big hydrolyzer in which sulfuric acid will start the chemical unraveling of the nylon back to adipic acid and diamine in the new A.D. process unit at the DU{Pont nylon plant at Seaford,...
The nylon intermediates unit at DuPont's Sabine River Works located near Orange, Texas. At this plant, the Plastics Department uses high pressure techniques to convert products of the Texas oil industry into many chemicals.
At this plant near Victoria, Texas, the DuPont produces nylon intermediates, polyethylene and ammonia in open type buildings. The plant was built in 1951 and has expended several times. Its initial product was adiponitrile, a nylon intermediates....
DuPont's Victoria, Texas plant was completed in 1951 as part of a five year, $550 million program of plant expansion to provide facilities which were deferred during World War II. Operated by the Polychemicals Department, the plant provides a...
New all plastic filter unit used in Cutter Laboratories blood and plasma administration set. Tip at right, showing the slotted strainer with acts as a primary filter, is inserted directly into the blood or plasma flask
Industrial tools are what make America so enormously productive. DuPont uses many thousands of tools, ranging in size form the common needle to this big ethylene refining unit at its Sabine River Works near Orange, Texas. Operated by the company's...
