The William Pahlmann Papers provide a rich insight into the world of interior design in the middle of the twentieth century. Pahlmann (1900-1987) was well known for his use of bold colors, textures and mix of antique and modern furnishings....
Collection guide for Wharton School Industrial Research Unit records. The collection is comprised of surveys, notes, interviews, and background materials
for some studies that were done by the Industrial Research Unit during the 1970s and
1980s.
The research lab is the heart of the modern chemical industry. Large sums of money are annually spent for research. Many trained men are employed. The chemical operations demand the utmost care and are frequently quite complex. This image shows a...
Collection guide for Engineering Research Associates records. The records are divided into four series. Series I - William Norris Papers. Series II - Papers of Arnold Cohen (head of the Research Division). Series III - Legal Records and Patents....
Fundamental research project in properties of pigments conducted by this physical chemist at the DuPont Company's Experimental Station using a linear accelerator. In the experiment, a high vacuum line is used with a volatile compound in contact...
Early research work on titanium metal is illustrated here by DuPont scientist. A thimble full of titanium crystals on an electrode was a peak test tube output. DuPont announced the world's first small scale commercial production in 1948. Since...
Research for the Electrochemicals Department, including metal plating study, above, is carried on at Niagara Falls. This department also conducts research chlorinated hydrocarbons, cyanides, adiponitrile and other products derived from furfural,...
Fundamental chemical research is important in the development of petroleum additives. This complicated looking apparatus is used by DuPont in its laboratories at Deepwater Point, New Jersey for studying rates of organic chemical reactions. DuPont...
Dr. Joseph Balthis, research chemist, is carrying out distillation at a controlled research pressure in a hood in one of the two man laboratories of the Chemical department's lab shown to visitors to the dedication of the addition to the DuPont...
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....
The William Pahlmann Papers provide a rich insight into the world of interior design in the middle of the twentieth century. Pahlmann (1900-1987) was well known for his use of bold colors, textures and mix of antique and modern furnishings....
General Electric is on the leading edge of a computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) revolution that promises to make the company vastly more productive. One facet of this is computer graphics, a technology that frees the design engineer...
The Carothers Research Laboratory at the DuPont Company's Experimental Station near Wilmington, Delaware. One of the Textile Fibers Departments four research laboratories in this area, it is here where work is done on nylon and Dacron polyester...
A Pigments Department research metallurgist at DuPont's Experimental Station is manipulating a water cooled electrode which extends into a vacuum melting chamber. An electric arc between the electrode and the metal charge fuses the contents within...
Specialists of DuPont's Electrochemicals Department Sodium Products Division staff the research and service laboratory and study heat treating, case hardening, nitriding and electroplating problems.
Research directors of the DuPont Company guide the research work of the department. Here in a Rayon laboratory physicist Jack Ballou (in shirtsleeves) explains to them, the use of unique 'iron lung' in basic studies on fabric comfort. His audience...
New automatic controls for basic research tools permit DuPont operator to run 12 stills at once instead of the customary four or five. This equipment is in the Polychemicals Department laboratory at DuPont's Experimental Station.
Research chemists are engaged in a quest that never ends, they are continually searching for new and better products and for ways of improving old ones. Out of laboratories such as the one pictured here come chemical discoveries that make life...
Dr. Joseph H. Balthis, research chemist, is carrying out distillation at a controlled reduced pressure in hood in one of the two main laboratories of the DuPont Company's Experimental Station.
