Table of Contents: National air tour; Production of slate for the builder's use; Holing through at Hagans; In the V ring at Camp Perry; DuPont plant facilities; New DuPont rayon plant at Waynesboro, Virginia; New upholstery fabrics are made of...
Table of Contents: New art at the Audac show; Science joins the sales force; Something new in quarry practice; Luxurious cotton meshes, frosted with rayon; New weaves in rabbit-soft, cool rayon; Boeing wings over the west; Old Swede's bureau...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Textile industry; Nylon; Pest control; Agriculture; Paint industry; Plastics industry; Rayon;
Table of Contents: Textiles and DuPont; Nylon's other life; New controls for pests; Down on the (tank) farm; Once the color was fugitive; The growing family of plastics; Rayon, rayon everywhere; Bag of tricks; How x-ray screens have been improved;...
Chemical industry; Factories; Rayon; Textile industry;
Article from the Thursday, October 13, 1949 issue of the Waynesboro News-Virginian newspaper documenting the history of DuPont's Waynesboro,Virginia rayon plant. Includes bird's-eye photographs of the plant from 1929 and 1949. Item 18 of 23 from...
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...
Physical testing of Acele acetate rayon to determine denier, or weight, as conducted at the Waynesboro, Virginia plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
Racks of rayon yarn in cakes pass into huge ovens to dry in temperatures considerably above 100 degrees F., following washing and de-sulfuring plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company.
Operator lacing skeins of rayon at the Richmond, Virginia plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. The lacing is necessary to retain the diagonal lay of the thread and to make it possible for the user to unwind the thread without snarling.
Winding rayon yarn into cones at plants of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. Each operator has been trained to tie the thread with a particular kind of knot, called waver's knot, and to place all knots on the face of the cone.
General view of a bucket spinning machine at a rayon plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. The white lines up the face of the machine are the rayon threads as they leave the chemical bath.
A single thread of Cordura rayon sailcloth, as used in the quadrilateral jib of America's 1937 cup defender Ranger, is unwound into the 390 filaments of which it is made. The microscope, magnifying them twenty five times, presents an unusual...
A bias cross section of Cordura rayon sailcloth as used in the quadrilateral jib of Americas 1937 cup defender, Ranger, magnified sixty times y the microscope.
