Typed caption: "Scene from the du Pont educational motion picture, 'A New World Through Chemistry.' Everything shown is from the chemical laboratory: rayon negligee, upholstery, drapery, curtains, rug, and lampshades; Lucite plastic furniture,...
Typed caption: "The DuPont Company's Belle Works stretches for more than a mile along the Kanawha River near Charleston, West Virginia. Plant products familiar to the consumer include antifreezes, fertilizers, and a mold retardant for baked goods....
Typed caption: "This 'chemical pipe organ' is one of the laboratory tools used in biological chemical research studies at DuPont's Stine Laboratory near Newark, Del. Its 100 intricately connected test tubes help separate complex mixtures into...
Typed caption: "This is inside the tunnel under Seymour Narrows which extended about 2,400 feet from Maud Island to a point under Ripple Rock, a massive underwater mountain. This age-old peril to navigation was destroyed on April 5, 1958, by the...
Typed caption: "This reactor was a vital tool in the development of a successful nylon salt process. It cost $25,000. An eight-man construction gang and a six-man operating crew spent two and a half months setting it up. Its operation for a month...
Typed caption: "This unit of DuPont's Sabine River Works at Orange, Texas produces nylon intermediates -- hexamethylene diamine and adipic acid. One of seven large DuPont units manufacturing nylon for textile and plastic uses, it is typical of the...
Typed caption: "Three parts per million of hydrogen and 10 parts per million of oxygen can be detected in titanium metal by apparatus operated by this technician at the DuPont Company's Newport, Del. plant. Oxygen makes the metal hard and brittle,...
Typed caption: "Through regular visits to DuPont Company laboratories, some 60 university scientists, acting as consultants, give DuPont chemists the benefit of their broad experience. Shown here, left, is Professor Roger Adams, University of...
Typed caption: "Tire plunger test: An instron tester, capable of exerting force of 10,000 pounds, is used to determine carcass strength and exact force required to push plunger through wall of fully inflated tire. Equipment is part of facilities...
Typed caption: "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...
Written caption: "Erected on the Brandywine by E.I. du Pont de Nemours - used as an office up to 1892. The second office was built on top of the Sand Hole Hill, about half mile up the road from this one, and was occupied in the fall of 1891. We...
Written caption: "Interior of Repauno Works laboratory at Gibbstown, New Jersey, established around 1880. This is one of the early laboratories in which explosives research was carried out for what is now the DuPont Co. The research in the Works...
Written caption: "Upper Yard tram track, looking down creek, press mill in background. Old dust mill now used for special Slow Fuse Powder in foreground. Supports of Glaze Mill water wheel in foreground, center race way to the right."
