At the DuPont Company's Experimental Station, Wilmington Delaware, this Explosives Department research chemist uses high vacuum, glass equipment in a study that may lead to a new chemical compound or a new and better way of making a known compound....
Experimental tunnel at DuPont Company's plant at Pompton Lakes, New Jersey is used by Eastern Laboratory technicians to duplicate conditions in underground mines. Tunnel is drilled 100 feet into face of a stone cliff. It enables researchers to...
Nitroglycerin is poured from a baker into a small gelatin dynamite mixer at the Eastern Laboratory at the Repauno, New Jersey plant of the DuPont Company where new explosives are constantly in the process o development.
The Explosives Department's Eastern Laboratory (foreground) at Gibbstown, New Jersey. The winding road in the center of the photograph running to the dock divides the laboratory from the Repauno Works. This pioneer research laboratory, one of the...
In 1880, the first charge of nitroglycerine was produced at the Repauno dynamite pant in a building similar in architecture and construction to the one above-as waste acid building. This structure was still in operation until 1954 when the company...
