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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...