These are wound cakes of DuPont's Dacron polyester fiber just off the spinning machines. Workman is shown inspecting them at the pilot plant at Seaford, Delaware. Dacron is now produced at Kinston, North Carolina and Old Hickory, Tennessee.
In the manufacture of toothbrushes by E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Leominster, Massachusetts the bristles are first washed, bleached and sterilized and then carefully examined for possible colored bristles. This scene shows girls picking out...
Careful inspection is given every pirn or shipping bobbin of textile nylon yarn before it is wrapped and packaged. The inspector is one of a large group that makes sure every package is in proper condition for the manufacturer when it leaves the...
Careful inspection is given every pirn or shipping bobbin of textile nylon yarn before it is wrapped and packaged. The inspector is one of a large group that makes sure every package is in proper condition for the manufacturer when it leaves the...
Transparent sheet of light sensitive film is inspected at DuPont's new plant for Dycril printing plates at Parlin, New Jersey. The complex technology utilized in the country's first full scale plant for making photopolymer printing plates involves...
Motion picture film being inspected as it is wound on large rolls at wind up end of casting machine at the DuPont Photo Products plant at Parlin, New Jersey.
Printed roll of motion picture film being inspected at the DuPont Company's plant at Parlin, New Jersey. DuPont entered the photographic field in 1912 when a modest experimental research program was started to develop plastic sheeting as a support...
At DuPont's new plant in Brevard, North Carolina an operator visually inspects polyester x-ray film base after it has been stretched and heat-set. The plant's equipment is the most modern in the world. Super cleanliness, rigid control of humidity...
In the final step before x-ray film is inspected and cut into sheets at DuPont's new multi-million dollar plant in Brevard, North Carolina an operator splices the trailing edges of one roll to the leading edge of another roll. Sheets meeting...
Every roll of cellophane cellulose film, which is slit to customers' requirements, is weighed and inspected. The illustration shows how the operation is conducted in the plants of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
Before it is shipped to the customer from the Newport, Delaware plant of DuPont's Pigments Department, each individual piece of 'dense' silicon is individually inspected. Impurities are removed to the point where remaining quantities are too minute...
Careful inspection is given to every cone of yarn before shipment from the rayon plants of E.I. de Pont Nemours & Company. Skilled in dining imperfections, their eyes trained to find trouble with the least loss of time and effort, a corps of...
Spinnerets are inspected under a microscope to determine surface scratches and to check the minute holes through which viscose solution is forced to form filaments of rayon yarn at plants of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. Precision checking for...
