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...
Out of an inexhaustible source of raw material- coal, air and water- chemists in recent years have been producing new and vitally important products for modern life. Among these are textiles, dyes, antifreeze solutions, perfume bases and plastics....
on front of card: "Wind Mill Motel and Restaurant. Nicholasville, Kentucky." on back of card: "Wind Mill Motel and Restaurant. Photes: 9101-505F12. Seven miles south of LEXINGTON on U.S. 27. Nicholasvile, KY. Eighteen Rooms and eighteen...
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on front of card: "Wind Mill Motel and Restaurant. Nicholasville, Kentucky." on back of card: "Wind Mill Motel and Restaurant. Photes: 9101-505F12. Seven miles south of LEXINGTON on U.S. 27. Nicholasvile, KY. Eighteen Rooms and eighteen...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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 alcohol) and plastic...
This is a nylon intermediates unit at DuPont's Sabine River Works where modern high pressure techniques convert products of Texas' oil industry into chemicals used by other DuPont plants in the manufacture of nylon yarn and plastics. In the...
A modern extruder laminator in the Plastic Department's Technical Service Laboratory. This machine is used for coating Alathon polyethylene resin on any substrate, such a paper, cloth, metal foil or cellophane. The DuPont laboratory is located at...
In this laboratory, the Experimental station near Wilmington, Delaware, experiments are carried out on the molding characteristics of plastic materials. Such experiments are carried out on new types of products to determine whether or not they have...
New DuPont explosive rivet at left has explosive charge chamber of uniform diameter extending throughout the shank in contrast to tapered chamber, shown in former rivet at right. The new type eliminates the need for precise tolerance and gears the...
The exceptionally high magnification of the most modern type of electron microscope helps solve the research problems of industrial chemistry at the Experimental Station. Electronic images produced by magnetic �lenses� of this instrument reveal...
The exceptionally high magnification of the most modern type of electron microscope helps solve the research problems of industrial chemistry at the Experimental Station. Electronic images produced by the magnetic 'lenses' of this instrument reveal...
Dye Works-Chambers Works, Deepwater Point, New Jersey
Modern American dye industry was born in this handful of buildings at Deepwater, New Jersey on July 17, 1917 when DuPont processed its first successful charge of sulfur black. Acute shortage of dyes during World War I precipitated the company's...
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.
