DuPont's Pack industrial x-ray film is used in x-raying welds of huge cylinders in plant of Herrick L. Johnston, Inc. in Columbus, Ohio, manufacturer of ground handling equipment for major rocket and missile programs. The resulting radiographs are...
At DuPont's new plant in Brevard, North Carolina an operator visually inspects polyester x-ray film base after it has been stretched and heat-set. The plant's equipment is the most modern in the world. Super cleanliness, rigid control of humidity...
This modern outdoor industrial unit is the solvent recovery portion of DuPont's acetate yarn plant at Waynesboro, Virginia. Its function is to recover the acetic acid and ether which are used in the production of acetate fiber. Aside from...
Watercolors of "modern" French chairs done by William Pahlmann while at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts (later renamed Parsons School of Design) Paris Atelier, 1929.
Watercolor of "modern" French interior in Paris done by William Pahlmann while at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts (later renamed Parsons School of Design) Paris Atelier, 1929.
Watercolor of "'modern" French interior in Paris done by William Pahlmann while at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts (later renamed Parsons School of Design) Paris Atelier, 1929.
Open buildings, typical of modern chemical plants, characterize manufacturing units at DuPont's Victoria. Texas plant. This plant, part of a 550 million dollar postwar building program, makes a chemical known as adiponitrile, used in the...
Gracefully designed wash basins of Lucite acrylic resin are manufactured in a variety of pastel colors to match the color schemes of modern bathrooms. The basin is not affected by water of bathing temperatures and the smooth lustrous finish is easy...
These smartly designed decorative pieces feature gold filled internal carved sections of DuPont Lucite acrylic resin. Included in the design are lamps, picture and mirror frames, cigarette cases, bookends and several other pieces. Made of rich...
Ilmenite at the DuPont Edgemoor, Delaware pigments plant. From this is manufactured the modern white pigment-titanium dioxide-that is widely used in better grade white paints. The manufacture of titanium metal also starts with ilmenite.
A technician removes combs made of Zytel nylon resins from a modern injection machine at the Plastic Department's Technical Services Laboratory. The DuPont laboratory is located at Chestnut Run.
Modern tank cars built to DuPont safety specifications move the company's products to markets across the Unites States carrying more good to more people, one of DuPont's principal aims.
The tensile strength of fabrics is tested on this modern version of a medieval torture tack. A swathe of fabric is secured in jaws of the machine which exerts a pulling pressure to tear it apart. Point at which it tears is recorded by dial at right.
View of the James River works of the Grasselli Chemicals Department of the DuPont Company. This modern plant (near Richmond, Virginia) makes an old line product-sulfuric acid. The textile, fertilizer, petroleum, iron and steel, paint and pigment,...
This sulfuric acid production unit at the Cleveland Works of the DuPont Companys Industrial and Biochemicals Department is a striking example of the high investment per employee required in the modern chemical industry. Completed in 1949 at a cost...
Efficient combustion of this modern sulfuric acid unit at the Cleveland Works of the DuPont Companys Industrial and Biochemicals Department insures that objectionable fumes will not be discharged in the air. Control instruments so sensitive that...
Growing importance of chemistry in modern life carries the challenge of safeguarding public health and safety against unforeseen hazards. New chemicals are subjected to elaborate and exhaustive tests before they are permitted to become commercial...
Aerial view of Kaiser Steel mill and new industrial area surrounding area at Fontana, CA. Image accompanied a press release by The Perrett Company, Los Angeles, CA.
Southern California's fastest growing industrial area is developing around the...
Night and day, the Sabine River Works of the DuPont Company, built on a 1,000 acre tract three miles southwest of Orange, employs 1,700 men and women in the manufacture of chemical intermediates for nylon as well as methanol (synthetic wood...
