Chemical industry; Explosives; Factories; Gunpowder; Rayon; Textile industry;
Article from the July 31, 1950 issue of the Yerkes News plant newsletter documenting the history of the DuPont Yerkes Works in Buffalo, New York. Item 19 of 23 from DuPont Plant Histories scrapbook.
Artificial rubber industry; Chemical industry; Explosives; Factories; Nylon; Paint industry; Plastics industry; Rayon; Research; Textile industry
Booklet documenting the expansion of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company's manufacturing facilities during the post-World War II period. Includes information and images related to the following projects: expansion of the Experimental Station in...
Chemical industry; Defense contracts; Explosives; Factories; Gunpowder; Paint industry; Plastics industry
Excerpt from The Indicator, a newsletter published by the New York and New Jersey sections of the American Chemical Society. Explores the history of DuPont's New Jersey facilities and their contributions to the defense industry. Includes a two-page...
Report by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment and Occupational Outlook Branch. Discusses the disposition of plants built on government contracts during World War I, with significant attention given to DuPont's Old...
Typed caption on photo: "F.D. Bickel (left) of the DuPont Company and Jack Buchanan, Northern Construction Company superintendent, study the loading chart of a coyote tunnel in the north pinnacle of Ripple Rock. Shortly thereafter, in the greatest...
Typed caption on photo: "Deep in Ripple Rock, technical experts of the DuPont Company crimp a water-proof sealer on the end of a detonating cord. The cord detonating at the amazing rate of 20,000 feet per second provided virtually instantaneous...
Caption on photo: "Chute-a-Caron, Dam for the Alcoa Power Co., Saguenay River, Canada, 1930." Typed caption reads: "Current of stream too swift to permit construction of coffer dam. Dam was built vertically into air then supporting rods were blown...
Typed caption on photo: "This is the scene in Seymour Narrows, 120 miles northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia, as the largest non-atomic blast in history sheared the tops off the top of the twin underwater peaks of Ripple Rock, one of the...
Typed caption on photo: "Deep into Ripple Rock, drillers drove a 'Coyote' tunnel which was packed with 2,750,000 pounds of high explosives supplied by DuPont of Canada (1956) Limited. Ripple Rock was located just below the surface in Seymour...
Typed caption on photo: "Water-tight cans of explosives being pushed into the cage at the collar of a 570-foot vertical mine shaft on Maud Island, about 120 miles northwest of Vancouver, B.C. The explosive was used to blow the top off Ripple Rock,...
