Toothbrush Manufacture (pre-nylon) and Manufacture of Nylon Bristles
Maneuvering with military precision, this ingenious machine drills the holes in the handles of the toothbrushes inserts the bristles and anchors them securely in a continuous automatic operation. This is a scene in the Leominster, Massachusetts...
Corfam poromeric material, a unique DuPont development, made its debut in 1963 as a new shoe upper material. One of the basic ingredients of the new material is polyester fiber. Here in a new plant at Old Hickory, Tennessee, the man made material...
Wyandotte, Michigan plant of the DuPont Company's Electrochemicals Department where trichlorethylene is made. 'Tri' as it more commonly known, is a chemical widely used for metal degreasing. Other uses are in dry cleaning fluids, extracting...
Chassis for home television receivers shown on the assembly line at the RCA Victor factory at Camden NJ. The operators are wiring the chassis from the underside.
Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.Illustration and drawing of a process producing billets of iron or steel. The page giving detaile ed information of the process is missing.
Nylon Intermediates Plants: Beaumont, Texas; Belle, West Virginia; Niagara Falls, New York; Sabine River Works, Orange, Texas
Caprolactam, an intermediate chemical for type 6 nylon fiber and plastics, is being manufactured in this new plant at Beaumont, Texas. The DuPont Company's first caprolactam plant is the results of a longer term research effort by its Explosives...
Manufacturing Process of Dynamite including historic methods
Tunnel leads into one of the ten mound shaped buildings which form manufacturing area at DuPont's dynamite plant near Martinsburg, West Virginia. Concrete walls are twice as thick as foundation of well built home. Air conditioning is new feature of...