Straining operation in the manufacture of paint at the Philadelphia Plant of the DuPont Company. This operation is the last 'cleansing' the paint receives before being put into cans.
First panel board in company was established on a powder line pt permit sage remote control operation. Here an operator starts up a mill. To insure maximum safety, DuPont's Belin Works is made up of several dozen small and independent buildings,...
Hundreds of individual ends of continuous filament yarn feed from the creel in the processing operation at E. I. du Pont Nemours & Company's plant for manufacturing Orlon acrylic fiber at Camden, South Carolina.
Polking' was the name for the hand operation shown here, used in the old days at Leominster, Massachusetts plant of the DuPont Company to round off the ends of the combs. Molding presses do this now.
Polking' was the name for the hand operation shown here, used in the old days at Leominster, Massachusetts plant of the DuPont Company to round off the ends of the combs. Molding presses do this now.
Polishing was another hand operation before molding machines were installed at the DuPont Leominster, Massachusetts plastic plant. Today, an operator makes 28 times as many combs a day as he did in 1930.
A loading and shading operation in the manufacture of paint, consisting of the mixing, shading and thinning of the finished product at the Philadelphia Plant of the DuPont Company.
Developed especially for the purpose and backed by continuous mill experience since 1941, the DuPont Sodium Hydride Descaling Process is essentially a chemically activated fused caustic soda cleaning bath. Advantages over conventional pickling and...
A chemist observes progress of a distillation operation at the Experimental Station. When cooled with liquid air, many gases are converted to liquids which are then distilled in this low temperature still, like water or other ordinary liquids.
Operator checks batt in felting operation developed by DuPont fibers experts to make new high performance industrial felts of manmade fibers. New process was perfected in DuPont's $5,000,000 textile Research Laboratory at Chestnut Run near...
The 100% motorized modern army depends upon motor vehicles for supplies, transportation and movement of gun units and war materials. Photo shows some of the vehicles of the 26th infantry being refueled during maneuvers at Pine Camp, New York....
Clear or colored glass marbles drop from the storage container into the compact electric furnace where they are melted at about 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The molten glass oozes through 102 pinpricks in the platinum alloy bushing emerging as hair...
