The E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company minute books document an important era in the history of the company from just before the turn of the twentieth century through the 1930s. The DuPont Company in this time went through many changes in structure...
Typed caption: "Short filaments may be produced by touching molten polymer with a stirring rod, and drawig the rod away. Equipment has been assembled by means of which continuous uniform filaments having a diameter of 0.007 mm or less can easily be...
Table of Contents: Rooms to grow in; Hush, hush sweet chariot; In place of silk; Kind of the hills; Do-it-yourselfers by the acre; In the swim; A new spin on motors; Before there's fashion there's Forstmann; A pick-me-up for wastewater woes; News...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Pots & pans; Plastics industry; Electronic industry; Concert halls; Agriculture; Beets; Automobile racing drivers; Vaccinations; Textile industry;
Table of Contents: Kicking it up a notch; Corian shows its colors; Bright lights; A jewel in the city setting; The beet goes on; The new race showplace; Cold comfort; The science behind sport; News in brief.
Table of Contents: Finger-nails and fashions; Capturing Christmas with Cellophane; Fine finishes make fine fabrics; What research creates chemical engineering achieves; That house at Wanamaker's; Improved wood preservation; Urea manufacture...
Table of Contents: Explosive rivets; The best tires ever; Ever see a vertical tunnel; Rubber chemicals, what are they; A statment about DuPont plastics; Now we can tell; Where Washington walked; Packages with a future; Down Memory Lane with an old...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Pest control; Sports; Plastics industry; Paint industry; Explosives; Lumber industry;
Table of Contents: DDT yesterday and today; Action sports; Polythene in civies; New color effects for automobiles; Freedom from insects with freon; Barrier against germs; Keeping the logs rolling; The golden egg; Cavalcade enters 11th broadcast...
This view was taken at the nylon plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Martinsville, Virginia. It shows the polymer and spinning building, where the operations of manufacturing nylon yarn begin.
Crude methyl methacrylate polymer, the base for Lucite plastic manufactured by E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company, ready to go into the dryers. The picture was taken at the Company's Belle, West Virginia plant.
Table of Contents: The polymer that breeds new products; Book-learning wasn't enough; Announcing two new auto finishes; King-size coal quarry; What do you know about bread; Chips off the old block; The undercover paint; Putting foams to work; More...
